Arthur "Art" A. McNatt III lived in my Miami Lakes neighborhood with his wife Jan and three children. He was from Oklahoma and educated at Tulsa University. He served as a pilot in the U. S. Air Force from 1963 to 1967. He joined National Airlines after the Air Force and was a captain with them until Pan Am bought National in 1980 and he became a Pan Am captain and instructor pilot. When Delta bought the Pan Am Airbus A-310's he was an A-310 captain and he moved over to Delta when they offered Pan Am's A-310 flight crews jobs with Delta.

Art also served his community for 17 years by working shifts as a reserve police deputy sheriff with full law enforcement powers for $1 a year for the Metro-Dade County Police Department.

Art's daughter Kim was a friend of my family, his son Arthur "Forth" A. McNatt IV mowed my yard and his younger daughter Dawn babysat for us. All three of them turned out to be fine productive citizens.

Tragically Art died at the age of 52 while flying a Delta B767 on approach to an airport in Italy on July 23, 1994. He was a fine pilot, a great family man, a good neighbor and all around good guy who many of us still miss to this day. Please click on the last photo to read his obituary. RIP Art!