Mark Edward Perrault
September 22, 1929 ~ December 27, 2022
Captain Mark Edward Perrault, USN (Ret.), 93, passed away on December 27, 2022, in Ponte Vedra, Florida. He was born on September 22, 1929 in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Marie Anna Dionne Perrault and George Perrault. It was always his childhood dream to become a pilot. While attending Syracuse University, he joined the Naval Reserves and qualified for flight training, earning his pilot’s wings in 1952. Thus began a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Navy, including an assignment with the Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team (1957-1959) as well as serving on nine aircraft carriers, accumulating over fifty-six hundred hours of flight time and over seven hundred carrier landings!
Mark was predeceased by his beloved wife Vicki and daughter Katrina, and is survived by daughters Tanya (Mike) and Monique (Dan), and grandson Mark, who will greatly miss his “Papa.” He is also survived by his sister Jacqueline and his many nieces and nephews.
“Fair skies and tailwinds,” Captain!
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i served as his crew with the blue angels for the entire time he was there and flew many hours in the back seat being from mass. we flew to presque isle maine to visit home once one great pilot and no better man than him great sense of humor.
VA 34 Skipper Mark Perrault was my first squadron commanding officer. I got lucky! He was a great leader, a great tutor, highly ethical, an example of integrity, and a superb pilot. He led a squadron that was fresh from Vietnam on their cruise on the USS Forrestal (CVA-59) in the Mediterranean. He respected and remembered the pilots who had been lost or taken prisoner in the War – giving us an example of a superb team that could not be broken, regardless of the adversities they faced. I admired Skipper Perrault throughout my Navy Career and still do today. What a great CO!!
Mark was a good friend and a superb Naval Officer and pilot. I refueled Mark several dark nights over the mid Atlantic and the Med ops. We were a good team and one night in the Med Mark drifted too low downwind to the carrier and I called him to climb immediately! It was a very close call. We didn’t make a big deal about it.