Quest Aircraft has received US certification for its Kodiak single-engine turboprop and has earmarked first delivery of the 10-seat, Garmin G1000-equipped aircraft this quarter.
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The approval covers single pilot operation for both visual and instrument flight rules and day and night operations.
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The Sandpoint, Idaho-based company says it has secured a three-year backlog of orders for the Pratt and Whitney PT-6-powered, $1.3 million Kodiak.
The prototype has logged over 1,000h of flight time since its inaugural flight in October 2004, says Quest, while the first production conforming aircraft has flown several hundred hours in since June last year.
The Kodiak is a high wing, fixed gear, short take off and landing aircraft, which can also operate off floats without structural upgrades.
"The Kodiak was designed with and for mission and humanitarian aviation organisations to perform under extremely rigorous conditions in the most remote regions of the world so the bar was set high,” says Quest.
Humanitarian and missionary organisations have also funded the Kodiak programme and in return Quest plans to deliver to them at cost, one in every 10 aircraft that it produces.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
