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TBM Gets a Bearish Brother

The acquisition of the U.S.-based company extends Daher’s North American operations, adding assembly of the Kodiak utility airplane to its portfolio.

At first glance, the photo might ignite a game of “which doesn’t belong and why.”  But when it bought Quest Aircraft last year and renamed it Kodiak after the utility aircraft of the same name, Dahar concluded just the opposite.

With growth hard to come by in a single-engine turboprop market that appears to be we’ll served if not saturated, Daher saw Kodiak as an opportunity buy that could, at the stroke of a pen, not quite double its aircraft production.

Paul Bertorelli

Paul Bertorelli is Aviation Consumer’s Editor at Large. In addition to his valued contributions to Aviation Consumer, his in-depth video productions on sister publication AVweb cover a wide variety of topics that greatly contribute to safety, operation and aircraft ownership. When Paul isn’t writing or filming, he’s out flying his J3 Cub.