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King Air operators will come through as word gets out. “King Air owners and operators are some of the nicest people I’ve met and I have no doubt they will step up to the challenge,” he concluded.
Among the King Air operators who have already registered are Ross Johnson, who was featured in last month’s magazine and flies his 2006 Beechcraft King Air C90GT out of Anderson, South Carolina, and Stockton M. Schultz, an Elkhart, Indiana-based owner-pilot new to the Beechcraft King Air family.
Schultz is still working on his rating but he pur- chased N53GA, a 1985 Beechcraft King Air B200, from Marv Selge who has offered to come back and fly the King Air in the airlift.
Selge owned N53GA for 19 years before selling the airplane to his friend in early 2021. He used the aircraft primarily to operate his construction business and from the beginning flew philanthropic flights, mostly cancer patients who found him through word-of-mouth and also missions with the Veterans Airlift Command, which provides free air transportation to post 9/11 combat
wounded and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes.
He said he’s looking forward to getting back in the cockpit of his beloved King Air, which he sold because he no longer needed the airplane’s capabilities, and wouldn’t want to miss the chance to fly in such an important airlift.
“I can’t tell you how many cancer patients I’ve flown in N53GA and every one of them that I’ve flown has been a major blessing to me,” he said. “I’ve met the most wonderful people. You never forget the people you fly. Anybody who misses out in flying in the Special Olympics Airlift is really missing an opportunity to bless other people and to be blessed.” KA
› Marv Selge, former owner of King Air B200 N53GA which he sold in early 2021, said he wouldn’t want to miss the chance to be part of such an important event and has offered to fly the King Air for the airlift. He encourages other King Air operators not to miss out on the philanthropic opportunity.
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DECEMBER 2021