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Plane & Pilot
Asking the Right Questions
 If you don't do your homework,
when the time comes to decide who will rebuild or remanufacture your airplane's powerplant,
you may make a costly mistake by choosing a shop with a reputation for poor service.
Assuming that you want your powerplant put together by a facility that uses the best practices,
equipment and testing, all performed by qualified, well-trained employees,
how do you make the best choice?.
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Colorado Biz
Attitude at Altitude
 Despite the resurgence of commercial air travel, general aviation continues to grow at an incredible rate.
That's good news for Western Skyways, a busy piston aircraft engine rebuilder in Montrose that recently began
servicing the turbine engines used in thousands of business aircraft.
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AgAir Update
Jewel in the Rockies
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Centennial Aviation Journal
Western Skyways Opens New Turbine Shop
 Montrose, Colorado — The aircraft engine shop known internationally for its Gold Seal® piston engine,
has taken to skies on a new venture — turbine engine maintenance and repair.
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Montrose Press
Western Skyways gives a Lift to Winged Charity
Charities often depend on the good work of others to get going and keep rolling.
Such is the case with Samaritan Aviation, the Montrose-based Christian ministry that flies medical missions in Mexico and Papua New Guinea.
Thanks to a donation of labor by engine manufacturer Western Skyways, Samaritan saved on nearly half the cost of a $33,000 engine overhaul for two of its planes. The savings will allow the charity; which heads to Papua New Guinea later this week, to spend more money on medical supplies and other good works.
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Pilot Getaways
Attention to Detail
By John Kounis
 I had a sad feeling as I primed my engine and cranked the starter for the last time. Since installing a Western Skyways Gold Seal® Engine in my Cessna 185 five years ago, I had flown it more that 1,800 hours. I hadn't been particularly gentle with the engine, pushing it at high power settings on 105°F in the Mojave Desert, or starting it after a quick preheat on a 10°F ramp in Boston. Yet the engine never let me down .
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World Beechcraft
Turbo-Normal Test Case
By John Foose, Contributing Editor
 Last spring I was contacted by WBS to see if I was interested in having a TurboNormalizer installed on my one year new Millennium IO-520BB by Western Skyways. After some consideration involving finances, timing, etc., I agreed to this great improvement, as it allows the engine to keep full sea-level manifold pressure right up to 21,000 feet.
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The
inside story on . . .Western Skyways
TBO Advisor
by Kas Thomas
Anybody who wants to become an "overnight success"
in the engine business would do well to study the success
of David Leis, Al head, John Robinson, and Perry Nicholson.
Before founding the Montrose, Colorado-based Western
Skyways, Inc., each of the company’s four principals
spent 26 years in the business, learning the art of
engine rebuilding the hard way: one crankcase at a time.
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Western
Skyways Puts More than Gloss in Gold Seal Engines
TBO Advisor
by Kas Thomas
In the Rocky Mountains, engine reliability isn't a
nicety but a necessity. When minimum enroute altitudes
routinely top 14,000 feet and your path is lined with
cumulo-granite, your motto quickly becomes "In
thrust we trust." Which may explain why so many
West Coast operators look to Western Skyways for quality
engine overhaul work when the clock strikes TBO.
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Overhaul
Over the Rockies
The Original Reman Shop... The Western Skyways Legend
continues in Colorado
Cessna Owner
by Jim Cavanagh
At the Southern end of the
high plains valley created by the San Juan and the Uncompahgre
Mountain ranges of the Rocky Mountains, sixty-five miles
south of Grand Junction and thirty-five miles north
of picturesque Ouray, CO, is a town of fifteen thousand souls:
Montrose, is its name. Surrounded as it is with snowy,
formidable mountain peaks, it would seem an unlikely
location for anything related to aviation.
Not So!
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A
Washington State Baron owner travels east to visit Western Skyways
TBO Advisor
by Arreed Barabasz, Ph.D.
I began to have that nagging, uneasy feeling while
flying my wonderful B55 Beech Baron. I depend on the
Baron to get me over the Cascade Mountains of Western
Washington every month. The Cascades are known as "the
great ice machine" and this is why they brought
the Concorde here, all the way from Europe, for known
ice testing. Despite the drag of de-ice boots and a
fuselage festooned with nine antennas, the Baron's 1,050-hour-SMOH
Continental IO-470-L engines were still hauling the
Baron at or better than book performance figures.
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AOPA's 2001
Bonanza Sweepstakes
Firewall Forward to the Future
Think of what happened
to Clark Kent when he entered a phone booth
By Steven W. Ells (From AOPA Pilot)
To appreciate the change that came over the AOPA Bonanza
Sweepstakes airplane in late February, think of what
happened to Clark Kent when he entered a phone booth.
Complete firewall-forward upgrades have transformed
our perfectly competent 1966 Beech V35 Bonanza into
a super sky screamer — an airplane that can readily
leap halfway across the country in the time it takes
an AOPA member to get through his monthly dose of AOPA
Pilot magazine and built by none other than Western
Skyways of Montrose, Colorado. The sweepstakes Bonanza
is now easily capable of true airspeeds in excess of
200 knots.
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As much as we’d like them to, aircraft engines don’t last forever. As pilots
log more and more hours, the engines wear and will require new parts and
a great deal of inspections to put you back in the air safely. It’s a fact every
pilot knows. An aircraft owner shouldn’t be inundated with the details of the
process, but can be involved if so desired at Western Skyways.
I should be the last one to write about the airline industry. All I know is that planes have wings, engines and pilots. When I arrived at Western Skyways at 21 Creative Place, co-owner David Leis immediately put me at ease and gave me a tour of the facility. I also met co-owner Al Head and vice-president, Tom Barry. Seeing the facility, equipment and watching the employees at work was quite impressive. I felt inspired, excited and amazed. It's hard to believe all of this goes on right here in Montrose