Northwest Backcountry Aircraft

We aren’t sitting in fancy offices selling planes; we are pilots/aircraft enthusiasts that have turned our passion into a real business.”

So says Kasey “Bonecrusher” Lindsay, co-owner of Northwest Backcountry Aircraft LLC in Caldwell, Idaho. He and partner Bob “Hurricane” Hannah were former competitors in the light plane business; they figured they liked the same things, the same kinds of airplanes, and together they could sell more airplanes and have more fun. So they joined forces.

Lindsay and Hannah both retired from their day jobs in the 1990s. Lindsay, a Chiropractor, started flying as an Explorer Scout (an organization for older Boy Scouts) at age 15. He was an aeronautics teaching assistant in his high school. “Those were the days,” he said. “My high school had metal shop, wood shop, auto shop, and -- believe it or not -- a full-blown Aeronautics class, unheard of in today’s era of cost cutting in education. The goal/final was the FAA Private Pilot written, a full-credit science course! The top three grades got a ride in the teacher’s Bonanza.”