Get in touch: (208) 358 1802 george@cropjet.com
Get in touch: (208) 358 1802 george@cropjet.com
George was born into an aviation family being a third generation pilot as well as second generation ag pilot. He began logging flight time at 15 years old and soloed at 16 with private, seaplane and instrument ratings at 17 followed by commercial, multi-engine and commercial seaplane at 18. He began flying skydivers at 18, this experience spanned everything up to 20+ passenger multi-engine turboprops. Other flight experience included flying charters into British Columbia, Canada in floatplanes. His most recent accomplishment has been the addition of a commercial helicopter rating in 2007.
His ag flying career began in 1997 at age 23 and he has been flying ag exclusively since 1998. George's flight time now totals over 15,000 hours with 11,000 ag time. Previous to moving to Idaho in 2005 to start Crop Jet Aviation he filled 19 different seats in agricultural aviation in 14 states. Flying on over 20 different types of crops in 16 different models of ag-specific aircraft including almost 2000 hours in the Air Tractor 802. While flying those aircraft he has become familiar with six different GPS units specializing in SATLOC. Due to the fact that a good portion of his experience is working for government agencies (BLM, APHIS, etc.) and large corporations (Weyerhaeuser, International Paper, Boise Cascade) most of his flight time is GPS equipped. In 10,800 hours of GPS equipped ag time over 9,000 hours of that has been data logged and printed for billing approval prior to payment. Of that 9,000 logged and printed over 5,400 hours of his experience was utilizing GIS shape files for flight guidance and field boundary identification.
His work in the Intermountain West since April 2005 consists of over 200,000 acres of regular farm crop work, grass-hopper control for USDA-APHIS and over 235,000 acres of application work for the BLM. Over 120,000 of those acres applied being fire rehabilitation seeding of native grasses with the balance being liquid herbicide work for cheatgrass control. All of the BLM and APHIS work required the use of GIS shape files and a downloaded printout for billing.
George currently holds pesticide applicator licenses in Idaho, Washington, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
To view more information regarding government work experience with COR's listed, view or download this pdf document. Please call George at 208-358-1802 to receive a password.
Former owner of Wheatland Aviation for over 30 years, Dan now pilots the Ag-Cat handling most of Crop Jet's row-crop customers in the Eastern Magic Valley out of Hazelton. Dan's years of hands-on operating experience with row-crop and the Ag-Cat make him a valuable asset to Crop Jet. Dan currently holds pesticide applicator licenses in Idaho and Washington.
Jason joined the Crop Jet team with the intention of becoming an ag-pilot. He is a wealth of knowledge and experience already in the loading and maintenance fields. Not only does he have his CDL driver's license with HAZMAT and tanker endorsements, he is also a FAA certified airframe and powerplant mechanic. Jason's history includes a loading/driver position with a helicopter operator in another state. He is also quite an accomplished commercial pilot having done everything from piloting his own Maule bush plane during the moose and caribou hunts in Alaska as well as managing and flying a Beechcraft 58 baron.
