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Jim Kirvida proudly reached 25 years of ownership of N911CF, a 1980 Beechcraft King Air F90, earlier this year. The president of Custom Fire Apparatus, Inc. in Osceola, Wisconsin, has previously owned and operated a King Air 200 (BB- 843) and a King Air C90A (LJ-1198) as well as two Cessna 425 Conquest twin turboprop aircraft.
“I typically tell my fellow aviators that I fly the Cessnas and I ‘wear’ the King Air,” Kirvida said. “It’s the level of comfort that I have with N911CF. It fits me well: the alure, reliability, performance and cost of operation are all in line with our business operations, plus it is a real joy for me to fly. Charlie Fox and I have been through nearly every kind of aviation challenge one can experience as an aviator, except a catastrophic failure.”
In 2020, Jim Kirvida earned the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for more than 50 years as a pilot. He credits his father Mitch Kirvida for inspiring his aviation passion, which he has passed along to his two sons.
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