2008
Merry Christmas
Friday, December 12, 2008…This Holiday Season, you may not need to fly five hours into the jungle with three thousand pounds of cargo, or land near gross weight in a thousand foot clearing, or do circuits to the dropzone with 15 new jumpers every 20 minutes. You may not need to carry nine people to…
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Kodiak Avionics: Now You CAN Get There From Here
Monday, November 17, 2008…When you’re flying a KODIAK with the all-glass GARMIN G1000 avionics suite you can get there from here. What’s more, you can make the trip safely, with complete confidence, and you have a much better chance of getting there today. While just knowing this is comforting…actually doing it makes the difference between…
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Kodiak Interior: Rugged and Refined
Tuesday, September 30, 2008…KODIAK #4 is the first to wear our new upscale Timberline interior package. Those of you who visited the Quest Aircraft booth at Oshkosh last summer had a chance to see #4 and experience the Timberline package first hand. We really appreciated your enthusiastic feedback and have been looking for a way…
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Kodiak Applications: Kodiak S/N 005…A World’s First
Tuesday, July 15, 2008…Even though it wasn’t our plan when we started the adventure, accommodating this purchase by the Rhine Army Parachute Association (RAPA)—and adhering to new changes in FAA 337 modification and jump plane certification rules—has made KODIAK #5 the first new aircraft with a jump package certified through the FAA’s Aircraft Certification Office….
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Kodiak Applications: Parachute Operations…A New Adventure
Monday, June 16, 2008 … Sometimes when you head out on a new adventure it’s hard to imagine where it will lead. When we first started talking with the British Army about the purchase of KODIAK s/n 0005 by the Rhine Army Parachute Association (RAPA) we anticipated a straightforward sale. Looking at the numbers it’s…
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Quest Delivers: Customer Deliveries Continue
Tuesday, May 27, 2008…It’s springtime in Sandpoint and the aircraft flowing out the door seem to be keeping pace with the river running hard with snow melt. As a matter of fact, if you blinked, you might have missed delivery of KODIAK s/n 0003. All 215 of our growing staff came out on the tarmac…
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Kodiak Production: Meet the Band
Tuesday, April 29, 2008…Welcome to Quest’s Lean Production Techniques assembly line. Each work cell along the production line works together like a group of instruments. We’ve got the guitars, the bass, the percussion and each one plays a different part in time with the others. Together, the music is complete. Behind the scenes we’ve been…
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Strong Market for a Well Engineered Utility Aircraft
Wednesday, April 9, 2008…The original design goal of the KODIAK was to produce an airplane with the ability to land and take off from the kind of short unimproved strips usually reserved for a 206. But we wanted to be able to do this with an aircraft that burns jet fuel and carries two to…
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Quest Delivers: Spokane Turbine Center Takes S/N 002
Thursday, January 31, 2008…One step isn’t quite walking, but two is the start of a journey. Our first delivery made quite an impact on us…all of us…from the production line to the head office. But as we handed over the keys to the second owner, Spokane Turbine Center (STC), something else became clear. This is…
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Quest Delivers: First Kodiak Delivered
Friday, January 25, 2008…Here is another one of those days we’ve been anticipating since the KODIAK was a sketch on a napkin…our first delivery aircraft met its new owners. It’s another huge turning point for us. How quickly, it seems, that we’ve arrived at the convergence of development and early production goals. And fittingly with…
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