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Owner’s
PHOTOS COURTESY OF WALLY OBERMEYER
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Wally Obermeyer
Wally Obermeyer with his PC-12 at the time of purchase
Wally Obermeyer is an ATP- rated pilot and Pilatus owner from Aspen, Colo- rado, who has logged more than 4,000 hours in the cockpit. Obermeyer is the president of Obermeyer Wood Investment Council, an investment management firm with roughly two billion dollars under management.
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He is also vice-chairman of the Ober- meyer skiwear company his 104-year- old father, Klaus, founded in 1947.
Obermeyer presently flies a 2011 PC-12 NG for both business and lei- sure. His busy schedule takes him across the state of Colorado, as well as occasionally to each of the coasts – and as far as Eleuthera in the
Bahamas. Considering the mix of short- and long-range missions, as well as varied payload needs and his love for Swiss culture, Ober- meyer stated that the PC-12 is his dream airplane.
“With the Pilatus, I feel like I have arrived. Every time I approach the plane, even almost five years after