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The Fleet

APEX Alaska
The Fleet

The Beaver

Our DHC2 Beaver is the Queen our our fleet.  She is stately and beautiful in appearance and when she “speaks” the whole lake stops and listens.  The Pratt and Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior radial engine produces 450 hp to pull the float equipped Beaver up on to step and into the air with ease.  Our Beaver has the rare dual controls so you can fly left seat while your instructor walks you through the finer points of become a Beaver Pilot. Plan to log some PIC time in the Beaver and experience the true freight hauler of backcountry flying.

APEX Alaska
The Fleet

The Super Cubs

It’s a Super Cub and Super Cubs are, well… Super Cubs are just plain Super, so every takeoff or landing is considered ‘short”.  What we used to measure takeoff and landing performance in hundreds of feet we now measure in 10’s of feet. It all started with a 90 hp engine before growing to 125 hp, 135 hp, 150 hp, 160 hp, 180 hp and now our Backcountry Cub boasts a fuel injected 210 hp engine.  Tandem seating, slow flying, fantastic visibility, a “stick” instead of “yoke”, the Super Cub is the ubiquitous and quintessential aircraft of Alaska. While you won’t find a lot of Super Cubs in commercial 135 operations, you will find it the most sought after and most common personal aircraft that is used for both hunting and fishing.  Flying a Cub is like putting on a comfortable set of boots; it feel right and becomes part of you.

APEX Alaska
The Fleet

Helicopters

Ok, skip short and go directly to vertical.  Prove us wrong but we believe that almost anyone can learn to hover a helicopter in a single lesson.  Yes, it might help if you are a heavy equipment operator or a drummer but even without a prior base, we will walk you through basic helicopter aerodynamics and controls and then we will light off the turbine and let you learn how to “feel” each control input needed to maintain position and altitude.  It’s sort of like learning to ride a bike; if you work at balance with wild control inputs you will wobble down the road, but once you feel the balance, the control input is hardly felt and suddenly without thinking too hard, you will find yourselves maintaining hover. We can practice this on our private runway or we can take a quick 7 NM trip, climbing 4,000 ft to the top of the mountains right behind our facility and practice there.  If you are easily distracted by spectacular views though, we suggest starting out on the runway and save the adventure helicopter flying for mountain top berry picking, fossil hunting or possibly a special fishing hole on a river.

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