STEVENSVILLE — The silence of the morning is broken by the sound of propellers as a Navajo plane warms up on the runway. The buzz of voices and music starts as skydiving instructors and chute packers get ready to start their day.

Since their grand opening at the Stevensville airport in April, Skydive Missoula is seeing a lot of growth and interest in skydiving with people both local and out of state coming to jump. With the influx of people at different skill levels they maintain a busy schedule sending people up in the sky to — as everyone there will put it — “jump out of a perfectly good airplane.”

Setting Skydive Missoula apart from other skydiving schools is taking students to 13,500 feet above ground level. It is a higher elevation than any other drop zones in Montana offer, allowin

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