Alaska Central Express#Accidents and Incidents
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| IATA = KO
| ICAO = AER
| callsign = ACE AIR
| founded = {{Start date and age|1996}}
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| bases = Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
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| fleet_size = 15
| destinations = 35
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| headquarters = Anchorage, Alaska
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| website = [http://www.aceaircargo.com www.aceaircargo.com]
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Alaska Central Express is an airline based at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska, United States."[http://www.aceaircargo.com/contact.html Contact Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614062043/http://www.aceaircargo.com/contact.html |date=2010-06-14 }}." Alaska Central Express. Retrieved on January 24, 2010. It is a cargo and small package express service.{{cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 72 | date= 2007-03-27}}
History
The airline was established as Yutana Airlines in 1987 and renamed to Alaska Central Express in 1994{{cite web | url = https://airlinehistory.co.uk/airline/yutana-airlines/ | title = Yutana Airlines | publisher = Airline History | access-date = 26 April 2020}} when the certificate was bought from the Part 135 in Fairbanks, Alaska.{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}}
Much of the original pilots, staff, mechanics, and equipment including three Raytheon Beechcraft 1900Cs, came from MarkAir Express, a subsidiary of the bankrupt MarkAir. In 2007, with the purchase of a Beech 1900C (N115AX) combi passenger/cargo, ACE Air Cargo began charter passenger flights. Alaska Central Express, as of 2020, owns twenty airplanes with plans for future expansion.{{Cite news|url=https://www.aircharterguide.com/Operator_Info/ALASKA+CENTRAL+EXPRESS/2452/ANCHORAGE/2700|title=ALASKA CENTRAL EXPRESS|access-date=2020-06-25}}
Destinations
Alaska Central Express operates freight services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005):{{Citation needed|date=April 2007}}
- Anchorage
- Aniak
- Atmautluak
- Bethel
- Chefornak
- Chevak
- Cold Bay
- Dillingham
- Dutch Harbor
- Eek
- Hooper Bay
- Juneau
- Ketchikan
- King Salmon
- Kipnuk
- Kodiak
- Kongiganak
- Kwigillingok
- Marshall
- Newtok
- Nightmute
- Petersburg
- Port Heiden
- Quinhagak
- Sand Point
- Scammon Bay
- Sitka
- St George Island
- St Paul Island
- Togiak
- Toksook Bay
- Tuntutuliak
- Tununak
- Wrangell
- Yakutat
Fleet
The Alaska Central Express fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2014):
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin:0.5em auto"
|+ Alaska Central Express fleet |
| style="width:125px;"|Aircraft
!In fleet !Passengers !Notes |
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| Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliner
|12 |style="text-align:center" |9 | |
| |Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliner
|1 |style="text-align:center" |6 |or cargo |
| Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliner
|2 |style="text-align:center" |− |cargo |
| Total
!15 !colspan="2" class="unsortable"| |
File:Alaska Central Express planes at Anchorage Airport.png
On 7 July 2020, ACE acquired eight Beechcraft planes at Ravn Alaska's bankruptcy auction.{{cite web |title=Ravn sells off dozens of small planes to Alaska companies |url=https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/07/07/ravn-sells-off-dozens-of-small-planes-to-alaska-companies/ |website=www.alaskapublic.org |access-date=2020-07-08}}
Accidents and incidents
- On 22 January 2010, Alaska Central Express Flight 22 crashed in the sea off the end of the runway seconds after taking off at Sand Point airport; both crew members died.[https://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20100125X41838&key=1 National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report of accident involving Beechcraft 1900C registration N112AX] retrieved 2010-03-28{{cite web |url=http://avherald.com/h?article=4262f5ce |title=Crash: ACE Air Cargo B190 at Sand Point on Jan 22nd 2010, lost height after takeoff |work=Aviation Herald |access-date=2010-06-12}}
- On 8 March 2013, ACE Beech 1900C (N116AX) operating as Flight 51 from King Salmon (PAKN) to Dillingham (PADL) crashed near the Muklung Hills-Aleknagik. The only two persons on board, the captain and copilot, died.
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- [http://www.aceaircargo.com Alaska Central Express]
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