Mike Castillo is a veteran Baja pilot, well known in the surfing industry.Justin Cote. 2008
"Nothing Goes According to Plan"
Transworld Surf. Retrieved May 27, 2010. He is credited for spotting the world-famous surf break,

Cortes Bank Cortes Bank is a shallow seamount (a barely submerged island) in the North Pacific Ocean off California. It is southwest of San Pedro in Los Angeles, west of Point Loma in San Diego, and southwest of San Clemente Island in Los Angeles County. ...

, by air in 1990 while flying over the coast of Southern California with photographer Larry "Flame" Moore.The Big Wave Blog. 2009
"Offshore of San Diego"
, The Big Wave Blog. Retrieved May 27, 2010. He is mentioned in the book ''Ghost Wave'', a book by Chris Dixon, as a "gonzo surfer and bush pilot" that flew his Cessna alongside a giant, "mutant" wave as photographer Flame took pictures of the now famously dangerous surf break Cortes Bank.Chris Dixon. 2011
"Book Extract: Ghost Wave"
Adelaidenow Book Extract He was mechanic and pilot for an amphibious aircraft, the

Grumman Albatross The Grumman HU-16 Albatross is a large, twin-radial engined amphibious flying boat that was used by the United States Air Force (USAF), the U.S. Navy (USN), the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), and the Royal Canadian Air Force primarily as a search and ...

, for

Billabong In Australian English, a billabong ( ) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is usually an oxbow lake caused by a change in course of a river or creek, but other types of small lakes, ponds or waterholes are also called billabongs ...

, Evan Slater. 2010
"Billabong's Albatross"
Surfing Magazine. Retrieved May 27, 2010. which he piloted for the

Great Pacific Garbage Patch The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N ...

Project fo
GreenLandOceanBlue
Steve Lawrence. 2009
"Success is Not a Place"
GreenLandOceanBlue. Retrieved May 27, 2010. He was the engineer and pilot for the 2010 Sylvester Stallone film '' The Expendables''."The Expendables, 2010"
IMDb.com, Inc. He specializes in vintage, amphibious aircraft recovery, repair, and restoration."Mike Castillo: LinkedIn Profile"
LinkedIn Corporation Flew 1944 Consolidated PBY 5A with Bob Franicola from

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ...

, South Africa to

San Diego San Diego ( , ) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a population of over 1.4 million, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth-most populous city in t ...

, California December 2012. Co-founder Seaplanes Panama, 2015. First commercial seaplane service in Central America in over 55 years.

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