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Many pilots speak fondly of the Piper Aztec because it is a classic all-around performer with a pleasant balance of speed and short-field capability.
Dave Wesloh was fresh out of Bemidji State University in 1983 when he kind of fell into a job with the company, whose owners were planning to expand into the freight business.
| Updated: 3:20 p.m. For the past several years, mosquito-control crews have used small planes to spray pesticides over vast stretches of wetlands west of Salt Lake City International Airport. The waters flowing off the mountains are impounded year-round in stagnant ponds and braided stream channels, creating ideal breeding habitat for the pesky blood suckers that spread disease and annoy people. The cost runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but officials have come across an outfit that will do the job for free: the U.S. Air Force. The military is happy to perform the spraying ...