Grant Aviation

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Grant Aviation
IATA code : GV
ICAO code :
Call sign :
Founding: 1971
Seat: Anchorage , Alaska , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Management: Rob Kelley ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program : Quyana Rewards
Fleet size: 32
Aims: regional
Website: www.flygrant.com

Grant Aviation is a regional airline serving Kenai , the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta , Bristol Bay and the Aleutian chain in Alaska . The airline was founded in 1971 as Delta Air Services, based in Emmonak. The current owners are Bruce McGlasson and Mark "Woody" Richardson, who bought the airline in 2004.

history

Grant Aviation was founded in Emmonak in 1971 as Delta Air Services. The name was changed to Grant Aviation in 1993. In the company's early years, before organizations like LifeMed Alaska started operating, Grant provided air ambulance and rescue ( Medevac ) services to many communities in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta .

In October 1994, the Emmonak Community presented Grant Aviation with a native owl mask in recognition of numerous life-saving measures in the communities of the Yukon Delta. This mask later became the company logo.

Today Grant Aviation has offices in Anchorage , Bethel , Cold Bay , Dillingham , Dutch Harbor / Unalaska , Emmonak, Kenai and King Salmon and serves communities throughout the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta , the Aleutian Islands and Bristol Bay .
Grant Aviation continues to provide air ambulance services in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region under a contract with LifeMed Alaska .

fleet

As of July 2020, the Grant Aviation fleet consists of:

Aircraft type number Seats comment
Beech BE-200 3 9
Cessna 207 7th 6th
Cessna 208 12 9
Piper PA-31 Navajo 4th 9
Gippsland Airvan 8 7th 7th
total 32 - -

On July 7, 2020, Grant Aviation acquired 10 Cessna 208 caravans and 5 Cessna 207 aircraft in the Ravn Alaska bankruptcy auction .

Flying Can Service (recycling)

Grant Aviation, along with Bering Air , Frontier Flying Service , Northern Air Cargo , PenAir, and Ryan Air Service, participates in the Flying Can service, which enables rural communities in Alaska to recycle aluminum cans and PET bottles.

Quyana Rewards

Grant Aviation offers a frequent flyer program called Quyana Rewards . Members receive credit for each paid segment at Grant Aviation. Members can redeem a free one-way ticket for five segments each and a round-trip ticket for ten segments. The rewards never expire.

Web links

Commons : Era Alaska  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grant Aviation AOC. In: av-info.faa.gov. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ Ravn sells off dozens of small planes to Alaska companies. In: alaskapublic.org. July 7, 2020, accessed on July 8, 2020 .
  3. ^ Grant Aviation Buys Ravn Planes To Meet YK Delta Demand Post-Pandemic. In: kyuk.org. July 17, 2020, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716221256/http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1024rural_recycling_finds_a_pet_project Webarchive
  5. Quyana Rewards. In: flygrant.com. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .