Quest Aircraft Company Revenue and Competitors

The company, which manufactures the popular Kodiak airplane, has for years been a shining example of the area’s strong manufacturing base, bringing in approximately 200 new employees over the past 20 months.“The market for the Kodiak, while still strong, is nonetheless impacted by the economy, and we need to be able to rightsize the company to stay at our seven-day build cycle time,” Schaller said. “We had already staffed up in order to go to the four-a-month rate in November and we’re at a point where we had to make a decision about continuing that process or not. The backlog and the customer interest, while strong, is not as strong as it needs to be in order to go to that next plateau.”