AirNet Express
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AirNet Express (IATA: n/a, ICAO: USC, and Callsign: Star Check) is a Part 135 cargo airline based in Columbus, Ohio, USA. AirNet opperates out of Rickenbacker International Airport (IATA: LCK, ICAO: KLCK). It specializes in delivery of canceled checks, documents, and small packages, operating over 500 flights a night throughout the USA and is a major carrier for over 300 of the country's largest banks. However, with the advent of the Check 21 Act, the lack of need for the physical delivery of canceled checks is slowly causing the company's demise.[1]
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[edit] History
The airline was established in 1974 and was formerly known as US Check Airlines. Since September 1996 it has acquired seven similar but smaller businesses including:
- Wright International Express, acquired in 1984, a competitor in cancelled check transportation
- Air Continental, acquired in 1988, another cancelled check competitor,
- Midway Aviation, of Dallas, Texas, a regional air carrier of cancelled cheques,
- Express Convenience Center, of Southfield, Massachusetts, a small package forwarder,
- Pacific Air Charter, of San Diego, California, a small California-based Part 135 operation in June 1997,
- Data Air Courier, of Chicago, Illinois, a national carrier of cancelled cheques in July 1997 and
- Float Control.
It is wholly owned by AirNet Systems.
[edit] Fleet
The Airnet Express fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2005):
- 4 Bombardier Learjet 35
- 29 Bombardier Learjet 35A
- 7 Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
- 23 Piper Navajo
- 48 Beech Baron BE-58
[edit] References
- ^ "AirNet's top exec is being replaced", Paul Wilson, The Columbus Dispatch December 30th, 2006
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