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Eli Bebout is also a veteran politician in Wyoming and the only person in the state’s history to have had stints as Senate president and speaker of the house during his career.
Their first aircraft was a Cessna 182 that was soon replaced with a factory-new 1980 Cessna T210N Centurion Turbo.
“My brother is 6-foot-7, I’m 6-foot- 4 and all my uncles and my dad are large individuals,” Eli said. “We were in the 182 with two of our uncles and trying to fly to Denver and it would never level off. We decided we needed a 210 so we traded in the 182 in 1980.”
Aircraft was part of their business plan from the start, allowing them to fly to remote locations with no commercial airline service to check on drilling rigs throughout the Rockies.
“We shuttled parts and sometimes people,” Nick said. “It was a real tool for us.”
They still own and fly the T210N and through the years they added an Aero Commander 690 and an
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