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The King Air F90 is ideal for most of the Millers’ missions that take them throughout California, surrounding states
and down to Mexico. (Photo credit: Parker Jones)
family to outdoor destinations from Northern California down into Mexico and over to Arizona.
“We absolutely love the airplane because it has great power, it’s the smaller fuselage but it has the big engines,” Miller said. “For our lifestyle, we love to go down to Mexico and we love to go to the mountains. We go to the Sierras and Lake Tahoe, and we also go down to Gonzaga Bay in Mexico and land on a dirt strip. We really travel all around the region and we can throw all five kids in, fill it with bags, fill it with fuel and we can go and land anywhere we want.”
Miller competes in the sport of desert racing, driving the No. 40 Trophy Truck in Southern California Off Road Enthusiasts (SCORE) events such as the San Felipe 250, Baja 500 and Baja 1000. He often uses the King Air to get to remote race locations.
“We blew a transmission and a third member on a truck we were racing down in Mexico, so we ran the King Air back up to San Diego and picked up a transmission and flew it back down really quick,” he said. “That was very convenient.”
Miller flies the King Air along with a second pilot, often his chief pilot Richard Hardoon. The two met eight years ago when Hardoon was managing several aircraft
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