Quest Aircraft Appoints New Dealer for Northeastern United States

Photo above – Chris Hand (left), Senior Vice President, Northeast for Clay Lacy Aviation shakes hands with John Hunt, VP of Sales for North, Central and South America for Quest Aircraft.

Quest Aircraft announced today the appointment of Clay Lacy Aviation as an authorized dealer for the northeastern US. Based in Oxford, Connecticut, Clay Lacy Aviation will be the exclusive source of new Kodiak sales throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. As an authorized dealer, Clay Lacy Aviation will also serve as an authorized service center for the Kodiak. The appointment builds upon a strong relationship in the Pacific Northwest where Clay Lacy has been a Quest authorized dealer and service center from Boeing Field in Seattle since 2015 serving Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

John Hunt, Vice President of Sales for North, Central and South America for Quest Aircraft, noted, “Our goal with our distribution network is to curate best-in-class partners, whose core ideals and practices echo our own. I feel confident that Clay Lacy Aviation will be a fantastic representative for Quest, and expect they will quickly develop many long-lasting customer relationships throughout the northeast communities they serve.”

“We’re honored to join the Kodiak team, and are excited to begin funneling this phenomenal product into our region.” said Chris Hand is the Senior Vice President, Northeast for Clay Lacy Aviation. He continued, “The Kodiak is an ideal aircraft for the owner/pilot or complement to corporate flight department flying throughout the regions many lakes, rivers and island retreats.”

For more information about a new Quest Kodiak in the Northeastern United States, contact Chris Hand, Vice President, Clay Lacy Aviation, 914.548.5191 or chand@claylacy.com.

Kim Stevens

Kim Stevens is the publisher of State Aviation Journal, which he founded in 2009. A longtime commercial-rated pilot, he was introduced to state aviation in 1992 as Director of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics, later serving as Deputy Division Director for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division. From 2013 to 2018, he was Director of Communications and Operations for the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in Washington, D.C. Relocating to North Carolina, Kim worked for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for two years and now concentrates solely on the Journal. Prior to his aviation career, Kim spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine business.