ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — When Kerry McCauley learned about ferry pilots from a friend of his, he thought it sounded like the coolest job in the world.

“I vowed right then that I had to become a ferry pilot because that is what I wanted to be,” McCauley said.

McCauley then spent 30 years of his life as an international ferry pilot, flying more than 65 different airplanes and logging around 10,000 hours.

“If you've got an airplane that's in one part of the world or country and it needs to go to the other part, that's where you would get a ferry pilot," McCauley said. "My particular specialty is international ferry flying. Basically, if somebody has an airplane that's in Alexandria and somebody in Singapore buys it, and the new owner isn't stupid enough to fly a small single-engine airplane ove

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