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two single-engine planes that are used for more localized
work. Also, there are certain applications where you want
to be able to fly very slow and low, and the single engines
are very good for that type of work.”
Depending on the size and scope of a project, Antalov-
ich explains that the company doesn’t always necessar-
ily need to use its own aircraft, at all: “We work together
with a lot of companies in our field, so typically, on a small
project, that would be a sub-contracted service. It would
be less expensive and more expedient to have a smaller
company that just does aerial photography or aerial sens-
ing, so we would probably sub-contract to a locally-based
firm. If it’s a very large project, then it becomes more cost-
effective for us bring our own planes out to the site.”
According to Antalovich, there about 100 companies those
do work similar to Kucera. “They vary in size from very
small operations with just a few staff members up to very
large operations that have hundreds of staff members,”
he says. “We’re in the middle, maybe a little bit towards
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