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in customer service, sales, and all of our public relations activities. It’s another tool in the Sunset toolbox and it’s helped us be successful.”
“The aircraft is dispatched for regular customer visits as well as unexpected service calls and safety surveys,” Glidewell said. He also uses it to take customers on golf outings and pheasant hunts. He’s flown throughout the continental U.S. as well as to Alaska and the Bahamas. He typically flies the King Air about 250 hours a year, though some years have topped 300 flight hours.
When he purchased the 1981 King Air B200, it already had the Raisbeck modifications he knew he wanted, including a ram-air recovery system, dual aft body strakes, wing lockers and Hartzell four-blade props. He added Garmin 650 and 750 touch-screen navigators and, in 2021, he had Murmer Aircraft Services in Houston repaint the exterior and refurbish the interior to look like a new 260 model.
Since he started operating King Air aircraft, maintenance has been handled at ProAviation at Meacham Field, where the aircraft is based. He has trained at King Air Academy since 2015 and has attended all of the King Air Gatherings along with about four Beech Party events in Tullahoma.
Is this his forever King Air?
“Well, I’m 68 years old and I’ve got it fixed up the way I want it,” he said. “I’m comfortable with it and I have a lot of time in it. I think it’ll probably be my last.”
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