Posted on 6/3/2020
Daher's Kodiak Aircraft unit in Sandpoint, Idaho, donated use of a brand-new—and not-yet-painted—Kodiak 100 Series II turboprop single, as well as a company pilot, last week to deliver 240 ventilators to Sacramento, California, for the Department of Public Health’s Emergency Preparedness Office.
The ventilators were manufactured by Idaho-based Percussionaire.
“Daher has the same culture of helping people as Percussionaire, and we recognized the importance of making the airlift resources available for this life-saving equipment,” said Nicolas Chabbert, senior v-p of the Daher Aircraft division.
“We needed to get ventilators to California as quickly as poss...