{"id":15962,"date":"2007-01-27T03:26:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T03:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2019-01-27T05:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T05:10:31","slug":"the-quintessential-self-made-man-michael-harrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/2007\/01\/27\/the-quintessential-self-made-man-michael-harrah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quintessential Self Made Man: Michael Harrah"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was penniless when he first resolved to buy a jet. Not anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirty five years after launching his career with nothing but competitive zeal and a carpenter\u2019s tool kit, Michael Harrah is the sole owner of Caribou Industries, a major development corporation which has built and managed restaurants, high-rise offices, hotels, golf courses, shopping malls, convention centers and other properties across the western United States. Harrah\u2019s interest in aviation began in 1976 when he saw a simple, \u201cLearn to Fly–$25\u201d ad, took an introductory flight and was hooked. He worked his way up from a Cessna 310 to a 421B, buying and flying a number of planes along the way, all in the course of a couple months.\u00a0\u00a0 He now owns a Gulfstream IV and five helicopters, including a Cobra combat helicopter he\u2019s flown in a number of blockbuster Hollywood films.\u00a0 While Harrah loves flying, he also sees how owning a jet and helicopters makes a statement.\u00a0 In this interview, he tells a story of flying to San Francisco, picking up his loan officer and flying to Lake Havasu where he had a helicopter parked.\u00a0 They transferred to the helicopter and Harrah flew across the river where the pair had a great dinner in Harrah\u2019s restaurant. He says, \u201cI had a loan commitment for $13 million that same night. I think he was fairly impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More in the January 2007 Business Jet Traveler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He was penniless when he first resolved to buy a jet. Not anymore. Thirty five years after launching his career with nothing but competitive zeal and a carpenter\u2019s tool kit, Michael Harrah is the sole owner of Caribou Industries, a major development corporation which has built and managed restaurants, high-rise offices, hotels, golf courses, shopping malls, convention centers and other properties across the western United States. Harrah\u2019s interest in aviation began in 1976 when he saw a simple, \u201cLearn to Fly–$25\u201d ad, took an introductory flight and was hooked. He worked his way up from a Cessna 310 to a 421B, buying and flying a number of planes along the way, all in the course of a couple months.\u00a0\u00a0 He now owns a Gulfstream IV and five helicopters, including a Cobra combat helicopter he\u2019s flown in a number of blockbuster Hollywood films.\u00a0 While Harrah loves flying, he also sees how owning a jet and helicopters makes a statement.\u00a0 In this interview, he tells a story of flying to San Francisco, picking up his loan officer and flying to Lake Havasu where he had a helicopter parked.\u00a0 They transferred to the helicopter and Harrah flew across the river where the pair had a great dinner in Harrah\u2019s restaurant. He says, \u201cI had a loan commitment for $13 million that same night….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15964,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}