Everts Air
| Everts Air | |
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| IATA code : | 5V |
| ICAO code : | VTS |
| Call sign : | EVERTS |
| Founding: | 1977 |
| Seat: |
Fairbanks , Alaska , United States
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| Turnstile : |
Fairbanks |
| Home airport : | Fairbanks |
| IATA prefix code : | 840 |
| Number of employees: | 250 |
| Fleet size: | 43 |
| Aims: | continental |
| Website: | www.evertsair.com |
Everts Air is an American airline based in Fairbanks , Alaska . It is owned by the Tatonduke Outfitters Ltd. of Everts family and is divided into three companies with the trade names Everts Air Alaska, Everts Air Cargo and Everts Air Fuel .
Everts Air Alaska operates scheduled passenger and charter flights, Everts Air Cargo operates scheduled cargo and charter flights, and Everts Air Fuel operates scheduled and charter flights for liquid fuels of all types to remote locations in the interior of Alaska.
history
In 1977, Clifford Everts, son of German immigrants, founded an airline called Everts Air Fuel . Everts bought two former military freighters, a Douglas DC-6A and a Curtiss C-46A Commando, and used them to haul tons of gasoline, kerosene, heating oil, kerosene and diesel to the remote communities and mining locations of Alaska that were or are difficult to reach by land . The demand was so great that by the year 2000 he increased the fleet to four C-46 and four DC-6s.
In 1993, his son, Robert Everts, who was already Vice President in his father's company, also went into business for himself and bought Tatonduke Outfitters Ltd together with Tatonduke Flying Service, now Everts Air Alaska . He then also founded the cargo airline Everts Air Cargo .
The three airlines still serve remote places and z. B. Mine and oil production facilities in the interior of Alaska with everything that is needed and can be transported by air. Apart from Everts Air Alaska, former military planes that are up to 63 years old are still in use today. The machines are mostly flown by veterans of the US Air Force or the US Marines, who can have several thousand flying hours.
fleet
As of July 2013, the Everts Air fleet and its subsidiaries consisted of 37 aircraft:
- Everts Air Fuel
- 1 Cessna Skymaster
- 6 Curtiss C-46 F
- 16 Douglas DC-6
- 1 Fairchild C-119
- 1 Piper PA-32R
- Everts Air Cargo
- Everts Air Service
- Everts Air Alaska
Incidents
- On December 20, 2000, around 7800 liters of fuel had been delivered to the Nondalton airstrip ( Alaska ) with a Curtiss C-46 of Everts Air ( aircraft registration number N1419Z ) . On the return flight to Kenai Airport , the machine was flown into a mountain at an altitude of 800 meters in bad weather. The two pilots were killed.
See also
Web links
- Everts Air website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ registry.faa.gov - Official aircraft register (English) accessed on July 9, 2013
- ^ Southern California company will take over some RavnAir service after bankruptcy auction. In: adn.com. July 10, 2020, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Accident report C-46 N1419Z , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 12, 2019.
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