Ameriflight

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Ameriflight is a cargo airline based in Burbank, California, USA. It is the largest United States FAA 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 three Learjet 35As and a Beechcraft King Air 200.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Main Bases and Hubs
4 Fleet
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Code Data

ICAO Code: AMF
Callsign: Amflight ^[1]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Main Bases and Hubs

Ameriflight's main bases are:

Burbank Bob Hope Airport (BUR)
Ontario International Airport (ONT)
Portland International Airport (PDX)
San Juan, Puerto Rico Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU)
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)
Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG)

[edit] Fleet

The Ameriflight fleet includes the following aircraft (as of August 2006) ^[2] :

All aircraft are "straight freighters" except for the King Air 200, and three Learjet 35As, which are passenger-configured.

7 Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia
- (All EMB-120s in the fleet that were built as 120RTs have been modified to 120ER status)
43 Fairchild Metro III and Merlin IVC
- (Merlin IVCs include 17 "Expediter" factory-built freighters)
20 Raytheon Beechcraft 1900C
57 Raytheon Beechcraft B99 and C99
- (All 99 and 99A aircraft have been modified to B99 status)
- (All pre-C99 aircraft incorporate SuperSpar wing mod and Beech hydro landing gear)
5 Learjet 35A
41 Piper Chieftain/Navajo
1 Raytheon Beechcraft King Air 200