Skyway Flight School
Skyway taught 1,400 people to fly. Frank's gone — let's keep the lights on.
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Frank Daley founded Skyway in 1981 with two Cessna 152s and a hangar he built himself at Gallatin Field. He taught 1,400 students over four decades — pilots flying for Delta, bush pilots in Alaska, surgeons who fly themselves to Glacier on weekends, and a lot of Montanans who just wanted to know what it looks like up there.
Frank died in November. His widow, Karen, doesn't fly. The school has two operating aircraft, three CFIs ready to teach, a hangar at Gallatin, and zero successor. Karen wants to sell to a national chain who have already told her they'd close the maintenance side and ferry the planes to Salt Lake.
We're trying to assemble a community ownership group instead — pilots, students, anyone who's ever flown out of Gallatin. Karen has agreed to give us first option through April 15.