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King Air
Charter operator solves goldminers’
turbine transportation needs
by MeLinda Schnyder
As soon as Dougal McQuie and Mark Woodley acquired Goldfields Air Services (GAS), a small charter and maintenance company based in the legendary Western Australia gold mining town of Kalgoorlie, they had an important decision to make.
One of the operation’s largest clients was growing and their air transportation needs would soon require turbine aircraft operated by two-pilot crews. At the time, Goldfields had an all-piston, twin-engine fleet of two Cessna 404s, three Cessna 402Cs, one Cessna 310, along with a single-engine Piper Warrior in the flight school.
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