Aeropelican Air Services
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Aeropelican Air Services is an airline based at Newcastle Airport (Williamtown), New South Wales in Australia. It is a commuter airline operating regular direct flights to and from Sydney with a flight time of 50 minutes each way.
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History
The airline was established on 23 October 1968 and started operations on 1 July 1971.
It originally was owned by the Newcastle based Hilder family, however in 1981 the airline was sold to a company associated with the now defunct Ansett Australia. It later became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ansett Australia.
Following the collapse of Ansett Australia in September 2001 Aeropelican was placed into Administration. It is wholly owned by International Air Parts (IAP) Group who purchased the company from the Administrators in 2002.
In 2004 an Embraer Bandeirante started services to augment the two Twin Otters used before.
Services
Scheduled services currently operated are as follows (at October 2005):
Fleet
The current Aeropelican fleet consists of (at February 2005):
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