Who runs the place

Wade Kessler bought a struggling two-instructor operation in 2014. It came with a Cessna 182 that held four jumpers and a lease that ran out eighteen months later. In 2016 we moved to a private strip in the cotton fields west of Eloy, poured a slab, and put up the hangar ourselves over two winters. The turbine Caravan arrived in 2019, which took us from 10,000 feet in twenty-five minutes to 13,500 in about eighteen. We are a small dropzone on purpose. On a busy Saturday we fly ten or twelve loads, so you are not one of two hundred people on the field, and the instructor who briefs you is the one you jump with. Tomasa will know your name at manifest by your second visit.