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Roger Woolsey snapped this selfie with his daughter Allison and son Chase in the 2012 Beechcraft King Air 350i the family owns.
The Woolsey family currently owns a 2012 King Air 350i based at KHOU and manages a 1989 King Air 350 based at KADS. Both aircraft are on the company’s charter certificate, and the 350i is also used for Million Air business, from visiting facilities to moving personnel and scoping out new projects, and Woolsey family personal travel.
“We absolutely love the King Airs,” Roger said. “Our primary mission with them is having them on the Million Air charter certificate, and probably 80% of the charter work in those King Airs is heart, lung, liver organ transports. We’re part of the teams out there making a difference, saving lives, and the King Airs are the heart and soul, the workhorse of that.”
They purchased the 350i about six years ago, after managing it for a Texas energy company that bought it new from the factory. Like the purchase of his first King Air, the E-90 in 1997, Roger said the 350i was a lot of airplane for his wallet.
“But we’ve had so much success with the King Airs over the years and our clients really loved the 350i, so we found a way to afford it,” Roger said.
Father and son said they both enjoy flying the King Airs as much as their passengers love them.
“I don’t understand how they’ve done it, but every Beechcraft we fly feels the same,” said Roger, who holds an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) pilot’s license with more than 25,000 flight hours. “If you fly a Bonanza, you fly a Baron, you fly a King Air 90 or you fly a King Air 350i – the yoke, the way they turn, the elegant, solid feel. It’s pretty wild how an A36 Bonanza has so much in common with the King Air 350i.” KA
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12 • KING AIR MAGAZINE
MAY 2024