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Schupan & Sons CEO Marc Schupan (right) stands with John Barry, President of Schupan Aluminum and Plastic Sales, in front of a truck that delivers on the “Call today, get it tomorrow” promise.
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given us a max gross takeoff weight increase to 10,500 and that allows us six people with day bags and we can still get in and out of essentially any strip in the U.S.,” Kelsey said. “We haven’t found an airport that is too small for the 90. I think that’s part of the allure of this airplane. Anything that’s within a 1,000 nautical mile range circle, throw a dart and if it’s got a runway, we can get there.
As a board member of the Kalamazoo Air Zoo, Michigan’s premier aviation and science center and museum, Marc Schupan was instrumental in acquiring the multimedia presentation
“Today we are in a satellite
airport of Toledo that I can’t
imagine anything bigger than a
King Air getting into,” he con-
tinued. “It’s put us within five about the history and significance of
the Tuskegee Airmen during Black History Month. (COURTESY OF LUCKYDOG AND SCHUPAN & SONS, INC.)
minutes of where our passengers need to be. Even if we were to outgrow this airplane, I don’t see us leaving the King Air family because of the overall useful load and usefulness of the airplane. We always want to have the flexibility to operate with high speeds into the major markets and not be run out of the skies, but also still drop into the small airports that have a 3,000 by 30-foot strip.” KA
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