Located in the heart of Maine’s Northwoods on Moosehead Lake, Currier’s Flying Service has been serving the region’s wilderness flying needs since the early 1980’s. Their fleet of aircraft presently include a 1954 DeHaviland Beaver (famous in Canada and Alaska), several rare Cessna 195s (perhaps the only 2 commercially operated in the U.S.), and several Cessna 180s.
Bill Currier, Roger Currier's father, was a machinist and took over his father’s machine shop in the 1950's. Bill was an avid skier among other things and focused his career on building ski tows and lifts for uphill transportation for ski areas. He was well known in the ski industry, and in the 1960's when New Hampshire found the need to regulate ski areas for safety reasons, Bill wrote the guidelines and regulations pertaining to "fiber rope tows". He was also hired by the state of New Hampshire as the first ski area inspector.
Bill, and his wife June, had a poor opinion of airplanes and their safety. As a result, Roger was never introduced to airplanes and the great works of aviation When Roger gradulated from college, he took advantage of the U.S. Air Force's offer for him to select his choice of career fields.
Much to the dislike of his mom and dad, Roger chose aviation and soon became an aircraft mechanic working on Uncle Sam's fighter jets in Germany. After his stint in the Air Force, Roger decided that pilots had more fun than mechanics, and subsequently learned to fly airplanes, further upsetting mom and dad
One day, after having a perfect safety record, Roger decided to introduce Mom and Dad to the wonderful world of flying. Roger landed his small tandem seat floatplane in a small pond near where they lived. Roger invited Dad to sit in the plane, which he reluctantly did. Then Dad reluctantly accepted an offer for a "boat ride". around the pond. After Dad seemed to enjoy that, he was offered a "speed boat ride", then the BIG offer of a flight around the pond, which Dad did accept!
Roger felt that only one quick circle around the pond would be prudent so as not to traumatize Dad any more. Upon reaching the beach and letting Dad out of the plane, Roger bid Dad farewell for the day. Dad quickly told Roger, "Wait right here, I'm going to get Mom." Mom then received her first airplane flight! They both flew with their son many more times after that day
Notation: This Currier family story was taken verbatim from the walls of their hangar where it is printed and framed for visitors