Family of pilots steer Haselden Construction on approach to 50th year

The Haselden family packed into a Cessna 182 plane for vacations in the summer like most families in the 1970s would hop in a station wagon.

One summer, the family of five spent two days flying from Denver to Marathon, Florida, for a fishing trip, stopping by at least three airports along the way to refuel and rest.

“That’s a long way to go in a small plane, but it was like our family chuckster,” said Byron Haselden, the youngest of the family’s three sons and CEO of Haselden Construction.

Flying started as a hobby for the Haselden family. But it soon became…