meet the friendly staff who make it all happen
Owners

Randy Sandstrom
Randy is the Chief Pilot, Operations Manager and Person Responsible for Maintenance. He has several thousand hours agricultural flying experience in both Canada and Australia, and holds an instructor rating as well as a commercial license.

Janet Sandstrom
Janet Sandstrom is our CFO and has over 20 years of book keeping experience, Janet keeps the office running smoothly during hectic spray seasons. Janet is working towards her private pilot license.
Pilots

Randy Kleim
Known as “R2” around the hangar, the 2020 season will be Randy’s fourth season with the company, and second season flying the Thrush. Randy keeps his flying skills sharp through the winter with his own airplane, while he keeps busy working in oil and gas and raising his three kids.

Cory Bayliss
The 2020 Season will be Cory’s third season with Prairie Dusters, and second season flying the Weatherly. Cory holds a commercial pilots license, and soon will be a certified flight instructor at the Shoal Lake Flying Club. Cory loves being an Ag pilot, he began his agricultural training 4 days after recieving his commercial pilots license.

Alex Graham
Alex is one of our Thrush pilots, and will be in his fifth season with Prairie Dusters in 2020. Alex comes from Minnedosa and holds a multi IFR commercial pilots license. Alex is a talented pilot with a decade of flying experience.

Kyle Sharp
Kyle will be joining us for his second season with Prairie Dusters in 2020, flying the Weatherly. Kyle comes from a background flying air ambulance Lear Jets, and keeps his winters busy flying Dash 8’s.

Diego Perez Rametta
The 2020 season is Diego’s third season with Prairie Dusters, and second season flying the Thrush. Diego has a wealth of spraying experience in both Canada and South America, and is one of our talented water bombing pilots. Diego is a flight instructor at the Shoal Lake Flying Club as well as a volunteer fire fighter.
Ground Crew

Mickey Shust
Mickey Shust joined our team in 2013, and brings over 20 years of Entrepreneurial and trucking experience. He also holds a PPL. Mickey is our go to guy.

Kevin Hickman
Kevin has been invaluable to our team since 2015, He is highly organized and ensures
accuracy every time. Kevin holds a class 1 License.

Ken Lawrence
Ken Lawrence joined our team in 2016, and brings a lifetime of trucking experience to our company.

Mason
Mason is in his second season with Prairie Dusters. Mason is responsible for loading our airplanes quickly and efficiently, keeping our airplanes on time and productive.