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Nucor Drilling is one of the Bebout’s core businesses, along with Nucor Oil and Gas and Nucor Inc., a construc- tion company. The larger rig is one of Nucor’s drilling rigs getting ready to move on a job in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
Aviat Husky. They traded the Aero Commander in for the King Air in 2007.
The brothers each have close to 3,000 hours but rely on Mathews to fly the King Air and he often flies the T210N as well. Between business and personal flights, they fly about 150 hours in the King Air each year, another 100 hours in the T210N and “fewer hours in the Husky mostly looking for the cows on the winter range,” according to Eli.
Typical flights in the King Air are 60 to 90 minutes with six on board, though they take it as far as San Antonio on a regular basis. In recent years the Bebouts have spent time in Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah working real estate transactions as well as buying and selling at equipment auctions.
Like his politics, Eli said, he’s conservative when it comes to operating the airplane and likes to
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