Ameriflight
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Ameriflight is a cargo airline based in Burbank, California, USA. It is the largest US Part 135 cargo carrier, operating scheduled and contract cargo services to destinations in 30 US states, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Ameriflight serves major financial institutions, freight forwarders, laboratories and overnight couriers in the western USA and provides feeder services for overnight express carriers nationwide. The Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) base is unique to Ameriflight as a large part of their business is last-minute on-demand auto parts and other time critical parts needed to keep assembly lines moving. CVG has also been instrumental in the creation and expansion of Ameriflight's business moving time critical Radioactive medical raw materials.
The company also conducts on-demand passenger charter operations using two Learjet 35As and a King Air 200.
Code Data
- ICAO Code: AMF
- Callsign: Amflight
History
The airline was established and started operations in 1968 as California Air Charter, and was merged in 1971 with United Couriers (UCI), a wholly owned subsidiary of ATI Systems International (ATIS). In April 1993 the fixed-wing division of Wings Express of Van Nuys was purchased and the outstanding shares of Sports Air Travel were purchased in mid-1997. Ameriflight is wholly owned by ATIS.
Main Bases and Hubs
Ameriflight's main bases are:
- Burbank Bob Hope Airport (BUR)
- Portland International Airport (PDX)
- San Juan, Puerto Rico Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU)
- Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG)
- Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
- Billings Logan International Airport (BIL)
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)
- Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)
- Seattle Boeing Field (BFI)
- Oakland International Airport (OAK)
- Ontario International Airport (ONT)
Fleet
The Ameriflight fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of May 2006):
All aircraft are "straight freighters" except for two Learjets and the King Air 200, which are pax-configured.
- 5 Bombardier Learjet 35A
- 7 Embraer EMB-120ER Brasilia
- 44 Fairchild SA-227 Metro III & Merlin IVC "Expediter"
- 20 Raytheon Beech 1900C/1900C1
- 1 Raytheon Beech King Air 200
- 57 Raytheon Beech B99/C99
- 41 Piper Chieftain/Navajo
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