From DC3s to 737s and Back

Bridgewater, Virginia’s Dynamic Aviation is a provider of modified aircraft which the company leases and operates worldwide in service of niche markets the likes of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); Airborne Data Acquisition (ADA); aerial application of fertilizers and pesticides; and aerial photography.

Dynamic Aviation’s 150-aircraft fleet comprises 124 Beechcraft King Airs, 15 De Havilland Dash-8s, four Boeing 737s, and a complement of ten vintage aircraft including Miss Virginia, a pristine DC-3 which formerly served as the United States’ first Air Force One.

Dynamic Aviation caters to federal governments engaged in national defense and military intelligence; state and local governments; nonprofit research organizations; and private companies serving the defense, civil, and aerospace markets. Formerly, the company’s services were offered via a fleet of Douglas DC-3 aircraft—storied machines as critical to civil aviation as Boeing’s 247, 707, and 747, and as key to the Allies’ WWII victory as Boeing’s B-17, Republic’s P-47, and Lockheed’s P-38.

Notwithstanding the DC-3’s inestimable role in U.S. civilian and military aviation and the model’s legendary stability and robustness, economics compelled Dynamic Aviation to supersede its DC-3 fleet with modern turbine aircraft such as Beechcraft’s estimable King Air, De Havilland’s sturdy Dash-8, and Boeing’s ubiquitous 737.

In keeping with the company’s propensity for mission-necessitated aircraft modifications, Dynamic Aviation’s C-90 King Airs are largely unpressurized—a dramatic break from the aircraft’s OEM configuration. What’s more, in 2019, Dynamic Aviation collaborated with Merlin Labs to develop an optionally-piloted C-90 suited to a variety of undertakings including ISR missions, maritime patrol, search and rescue, and resupply of forward-deployed soldiers.

Dynamic Aviation’s King Air 200 aircraft are operated primarily in support of high-altitude ADA and ISR missions, De Havilland’s (more recently Bombardier’s) Dash-8 series high-wing, twin-turboprop regional aircraft is Dynamic Aviation’s platform of choice for tactical defense missions. Extremely capable at both high and low altitudes and in austere locations, Dynamic Aviation’s Dash-8 Q100, Q200, and Q300 aircraft occasion combinations of range, reliability, performance, and payload eminently conducive to challenging tactical defense missions around the globe.

The newest addition to Dynamic Aviation’s fleet is Boeing’s 737-500, which the company plies to high-altitude, long-loiter, long-range aerial-survey, oil spill response, and fire-suppression missions.

Over its fifty-years of operations, Dynamic Aviation has combined creative ingenuity with dependable aircraft and a state-of-the-art infrastructure to develop and deliver extremely flexible solutions to demanding global customers.

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