Custom Air Transport

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Custom Air Transport is a cargo airline based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. It operates cargo services on behalf of Charter America, which includes several postal contracts. It also flies on behalf of US freight forwarder Eagle Global Logistics.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 History 3 Services 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: 5R
• ICAO Code: CTT
• Callsign: CAT ^[1]

[edit] History

The airline was established in March 1995 and started operations in December 1995. It is wholly owned by Anthony Romeo, who is also the Chairman and Chief Executive. CAT operated cargo flights on behalf of Emery Worldwide to and from its hub in Dayton, OH, until Emery parent company CF Transportation split the air freight activities into its own division, Menlo Forwarding, which took over the contract with CAT. In 2005, UPS acquired Menlo Forwarding and decided to shut down the Dayton hub. CAT's last flight for Menlo Forwarding was on June 30, 2006, when the Dayton hub was officially closed and all but a few CAT pilots and flight engineers were furloughed. Except for a few aircraft in South Florida, CAT's fleet of 727 aircraft was parked shortly thereafter.^{[citation needed]} CAT does some flying in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

[edit] Services

Custom Air Transport operates the following services (at January 2005):

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Chicago and Dayton.

• International scheduled destinations: Mexico City.

[edit] Fleet

The Custom Air Transport fleet consists of the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[2] :

• 17 Boeing 727-200F

[edit] External links

• Custom Air Transport

[edit] References

1. ^ Airline Codes (November 2006)
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006