Page 10 - May 2015 Volume 9, Number 5

Onshore Outsourcing supports a local early development center where many of its employees’ children attend. The company invited them out to see the King Air at Macon-Fowler Memorial Airport. (SHANE MAYES)
The week we visited Mayes said was a typical week of flying. He was flying on Friday to Atlanta to meet with his advisory board. On Saturday he would fly to Kansas City for a Young Presidents’ Organization with his wife and two of his daughters. He would be back in Atlanta on Monday to speak at a Chief Information Officer event and on Thursday he had a prospective client meeting in Chicago.
Future Plans
Through its first 14 months, Onshore flew the King Air B200 300 hours according to chief pilot Thomas Goad, who majored in flight operations at the University of Dubuque, then spent time as a flight trainer in his native California, a bush pilot in Alaska and flying freight based out of St. Louis until joining Onshore Outsourcing when the company acquired the King Air. “It’s been rock-solid for us. We’ve been able to get 281 knots true airspeed out of it consistently, and the reliability has been huge.”
During the first year, a typical mission for the company included three or four passengers with a 600-mile range. This year, Goad’s goal is to increase the passenger load to six or seven on average by communicating the aircraft’s schedule with more notice.
“As a business, we want to manage this asset efficiently, so we’re tracking by seat mile cost,” Mayes said. “Thomas came to me and said if we really want the most use out of this airplane, the sweet spot is full seats and up to 600 miles so that’s what we’re doing.”
The aircraft has Garmin 530 avionics and RAM air modification that were installed prior to purchase, and the interior was reupholstered when Onshore took delivery. Mayes said future modifications could include new paint, as well as Blackhawk and G1000 upgrades. And while George Strait had a pretty nice stereo system installed, Mayes expects to upgrade the entertainment system also.
“The King Air will be around at Onshore for a long time; it’s the perfect airplane for us,” he said. “It allows me to live in a rural area, right in the middle of all the challenges rural America faces in a rural employment ecosystem while still running a business. I wouldn’t be able to recruit to Macon, Mo., the executive team I have dispersed across the country and we wouldn’t be able to get out there and sell to Fortune 500 companies or have face-to-face meetings with our customers without the King Air.” KA
8 • KING AIR MAGAZINE
MAY 2015