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End-of-the- Road Warriorshandlers. As summer flying approaches, he’ll grow to about 20 employees, but pilot turnover is high due tothe hardships of the remote location.A Mix“We do charters. One day we could be landing on a frozen ice strip, and the next day you could be doing a charter down south to anywhere. It’s a real mix,” Misurka says. But, the majority of flying involves landing on prepared runways. “We don’t do skis; we don’t do floats, nothing like that.”He adds, “Some gravel strips, some paved, a mix of IFR-VFR, night-day, IMC-VMC, just a whole mix of everything. We’ve done charters to Milwaukee, Chicago and Minneapolis, and then the next day you’re going into a gravel strip up north.” Misurka began Superior with a single Piper Chieftain in 2003 and then added a second one, always keeping the airplanes with a focus on growing the fleet.“We did have some lucky breaks along the way. A competitor closed, and we picked up some of his business, and then just things just snowballed. Because, as you get to a certain size, you acquire a certain marketMAY 2012TWIN & TURBINE • 17