Quest Kodiak: Airplane on a Mission

Isabel Goyer

Friday, February 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM ET

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Quest Kodiak [Credit: Paul Bowen]

Key Takeaways:

The Quest Kodiak is a robust turboprop single-engine aircraft primarily designed for humanitarian and mission-based operations in remote, challenging environments, capable of short takeoffs/landings and heavy cargo/passenger hauling.
It features a powerful Pratt & Whitney PT6 engine, durable construction, and modern Garmin G1000 avionics (with planned upgrades), offering impressive performance and ease of handling even in difficult terrain and weather.
Quest Aircraft employs a unique business model where development is partly financed by mission groups, who receive discounted aircraft, enabling the Kodiak to support life-saving efforts in hard-to-reach locations while also serving private and commercial markets.

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It was a cruddy day to go mountain flying. A ragged gray overcast stretched over Western Washington State, high enough to make for good VFR under the deck near Spokane, but it promised to be a more complicated journey to the east, where the spine of the Bitterroots juts out, rising to 10,000 feet at the highest peaks.

I was finally right where I’d wanted to be for the past couple of years, sitting in the left seat of the big Kodiak, a new turboprop single from a startup company that’s focused not so much on the bottom line as on helping others.