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Originally Posted by flipper35
Glen, you make your pilot buy his own plane? Just kidding, I imagine the camera takes up the rear passenger area.
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Brent, our company has a Cessna 206 with a 24 inch hole in the floor that came from the factory with the hole. Our airplane is a 1965 model that the company bought in 1969 for $17,000. Is worth a bit more now. The camera is the size of an end table and weighs just under 500 lbs. The lens alone is 300 lbs.
The pilot has his own plane that he had before he came to work here. It mostly sits in his own hangar. He flies about 500 hours a year for us so going to fly around for fun is not high on his list anymore. He does fly it up to Oskosh every year and spends the week there.