Cigar Companies??

[Kingairrick]

It is Thompson Cigar in TPA. They are managed by Southern Air Systems, locally known for hiring 800 pilots into right seats of jets and paying them $18-20K per year. Nuff said.
Also, a friend of mine who works for SAS was flying a King Air 200 out of OPF for a some cigar company. Worked monday-friday, following week off, Mon-Fri, ect...He said it was a good gig, and DID get free smokes...

 

[PMVULB AvMgr]

Couple of points adding to the discussion.

General Cigar (aka Culbro as well as Gen Cig) operates a pretty new G-100. It replaced an early Astra, which replaced a Westwind II, which replaced a Westwind, which replaced a King Air 90, which I remember as far back as 1972 being operated out of Atlantic's hangar at TEB.

There was also a King Air 300 that was operated by the company that makes Macanudos (sorry, I don't smoke, so don't know the name of the company), registered in the Dominican Republic. This aircraft was stolen while in Miami for maintenance, sometime in the 1980's. I remember hearing a while later that the aircraft crashed somewhere in South America while smuggling drugs. It was replaced by a King Air 350, although I have no idea if that one is still current.