The Quest Aircraft Company was started in 2001 . Based in Idaho, the company was founded by Tom Hamilton and David Voetmann, intending to take on names like Cessna by developing aircraft suited for remote environments. Yet, today, there is no "Quest Aircraft Company.
" The only aircraft the company ever produced, the single-engine Kodiak, is currently being sold by Daher , a French conglomerate best known in the aviation world for also selling the popular TBM turboprop. Whereas the TBM is a pressurized aircraft primarily designed for personal use, the Kodiak is intended for work , with heavy use by missions and relief groups. Since its introduction, the Kodiak has been developed into two fuselage lengths, with applications in the civilian and military world.
Quest Aircraft Company, meanwhile, changed hands twice and was renamed Kodiak Aircraft after being integrated into Daher in 2019, becoming a division of the company. What are some of the many versions of the popular type? Quest's history and fate Hamilton and Voetmann both had extensive backgrounds in aviation. A licensed pilot, Tom Hamilton founded Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft in 1979 , and the company began producing the Glasair TD kit plane (later renamed the Glasair I).
Hamilton was the primary designer of his aircraft, Glasair, the first composite kit design in general aviation history. The company later followed up with two successors and the high-wing GlaStar. David Voetmann's resume was more modest, but he still had .
