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“It’s great because you get to see a lot of country and the work keeps you on your toes,” - Jackie Shadowen, owner and operator of Shadowen Flying Services


controls of an aircraft of some sort. Shadowen, a pilot of 20 years, runs a crop dusting service that goes about anywhere in the state and uses helicop- ters to do all the heavy lifting. “We have four helicopters we fly commercially,” Shadowen said. “Our equipment allows us to cover pretty much any job during the season. We spray everything: herbicides, fungicides, pesti- cides, all on crops and pastureland.” Shadowen first took an interest in crop dusting in 1994 while flying as a jump pilot for skydivers in Cushing, Okla. Following one of his jump runs, he watched a crop duster land and taxi toward the hangars.


“It was a huge, oily crop duster of a plane, with an old, round engine,” Shadowen said. “I followed


the pilot to his hangar and asked, ‘Well how do you do this?’ We became quick friends and I load- ed chemical for them for the next 2 or 3 years to work my way into the business and get my own crop duster.” During that time, Shadowen saved his earnings and began flying helicopters in 1997. Between his chemical service, flying bush planes in Alaska, and a stretch in South America for the U.S. govern- ment, he put together the experience and savings needed to move into the helicopter crop dusting business. “It’s a pretty expensive hobby to get into, one that requires a lot of drive,” Shadowen said. “It’s about building the experience and convincing the


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The workhorse of Shadowen’s crop dusting service is a heavily modified Bell 47, an updated model of the classic M.A.S.H. helicopter. Photo by Mitch Steichen


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