Backcountry Capability: Uptown Style
Daher, the French industrial conglomerate and parent company of the SOCATA and Quest aerospace concerns, has debuted its new Kodiak-900—a single-engine, STOL turboprop—at AirVenture 2022. The new aircraft is a larger, faster version of Daher’s popular Kodiak-100, and joins its robust progenitor and the TBM-910 and 960 turboprops atop Daher’s line of innovative, practical, and stylish machines. The Kodiak-900, which received FAA certification on 20 July 2022, is produced in Sandpoint, Idaho—along with the Kodiak-100, which Daher intends to continue producing. The new aircraft inherits its ancestor’s backcountry formidability, but offers operators an increased, 210-knot cruise