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“Wings Rotors & Paws” is Kim Darst’s business motto and that says it all! Kim is a helicopter pilot by trade. She owns and operates a flight school in northwestern New Jersey and also has an airport in northeastern Pennsylvania called “Husky Haven Airport”. Kim became intrigued with flying during a childhood helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon. By the time she was 17 she had earned her pilot’s license and flew herself to her own high school graduation. For a period Kim held the record as the youngest licensed pilot in the world. Her passion became her career and at this point she owns seven airplanes and three helicopters. For the aviation enthusiasts among you, her craft include: two Cessna 172s; a J-3 Cub; a Cessna 182; a Piper Pa 24-250; a Commanche; an Aeronca 7EC; a Bell Jetranger; a Bell 47 and a Schweizer 300C. In the early 1990’s Kim’s work took her to the great state of Alaska where she discovered the joy and thrill of the state sport, dog sledding. Obscure as it might be in New Jersey, Kim recognized an opportunity to fill the long flight-free winters with a new found passion, and she returned to the Garden State with every intention of running dogs in it. Kim’s quest started with just two Samoyeds, and when she announced that she wanted to pursue racing she received a priceless gift. One of her flight students purchased an Alaskan Husky for her, a racing sled dog from the kennel of the legendary three-time Iditarod winner, Susan Butcher. Today Kim’s kennel consists of 30 Alaskan Huskies, all but three of them from Susan Butcher’s lines. In 2009 the Husky Haven Race Team pulled Kim and her packed sled out of the starting chute and into Iditarod XXXVII, and as they hit that famous trail they also launched Kim Darst into history again, this time as the first musher from New Jersey to ever embark on Alaska’s historical and unpredictable “Last Great Race on Earth.” |
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