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Grand Canyon National Park has one fixed wing plane and one pilot. In May, Galen Howell, the park’s fixed wing pilot, flew to St. Paul, Minnesota to pick up a new plane for the park. Loretta Yerian/WGCN

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Job with a view: Grand Canyon National Park gets new airplane
Fixed wing operation at Grand Canyon National Park gets new Cessna 206, in 2015 pilot flew 303 hours, transported 178 passengers and carried 3,020 pounds of cargo

GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - Grand Canyon's helicopter program is one of the busiest in the National Park Service (NPS) but there are some things an airplane can do that don't require a helicopter, like 15 minute passenger transports over the Canyon or law enforcement patrol flights - just to name a few.

By Loretta Yerian July 12, 2016