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New Ownership at Thrush Aircraft Promises a Bright Future

Dan Pimentel
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A Thrush 510P at work, flying low.
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Key Takeaways:

  • Thrush Aircraft, known for its agriculture, forestry, and firefighting planes, has new ownership and leadership following a Chapter 11 filing, with Mark McDonald appointed as the new CEO.
  • The new team plans to reorganize the company, increase capabilities and capacity, and emphasizes newfound stability and a strong position for future growth and success.
  • The company assures customers that sales, deliveries, training, and support will continue and improve, with new leadership and product news to be introduced at the upcoming 2019 Ag Aviation Expo.
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Albany, Georgia-based Thrush Aircraft announced recently that a new ownership group closed on an asset purchase agreement September 5th after a Chapter 11 filing that will allow new leadership to conduct a reorganization of the company, known worldwide for making a popular line of agriculture, forestry and firefighting aircraft.

Dan Pimentel

Dan Pimentel is an instrument-rated private pilot and former airplane owner who has been flying since 1996. As an aviation journalist and photographer, he has covered all aspects of the general and business aviation communities for a long list of major aviation magazines, newspapers and websites. He has never met a flying machine that he didn’t like, and has written about his love of aviation for years on his Airplanista blog. For 10 years until 2019, he hosted the popular ‘Oshbash’ social media meetup events at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

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