Kalitta Charters II
| Kalitta Charters II | |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | KFS |
| Call sign : | KALITTA |
| Founding: | 1984 (as Reliant Airlines) |
| Seat: |
Ypsilanti (Michigan) , United States
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| Home airport : | Willow Run Airport |
| Management: | Douglas Kalitta (CEO) |
| Fleet size: | 15th |
| Aims: | continental |
| Website: | kalittacharters.com |
Kalitta Charters II (originally Reliant Airlines until the end of 2002 ) is an American airline based in Ypsilanti (Michigan) . It operates nationwide cargo flights in charter and scheduled traffic . The company is a sister company of the internationally active Kalitta Air and Kalitta Charters, which is active in business aviation .
history
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The company was founded in April 1984 under the name Reliant Airlines by Reese C. Zantop, who had previously headed Zantop International Airlines , as a cargo airline in Ypsilanti (Michigan) . Reliant Airlines received an Air Operator Certificate according to FAR 121 from the Federal Aviation Administration , which allowed them to operate nationwide scheduled flights as well as contract services outside the USA. To start operations, Reese C. Zantop acquired three Dassault Falcon 20DC cargo planes from Federal Express , the first of which was taken over on May 15, 1984. By the beginning of 1987, the company put three more machines of this type into service. In addition, a Beechcraft King Air 100 added to the fleet in the same year . Reliant Airlines deployed its aircraft from Memphis International Airport for Federal Express and within Europe in cooperation with Zantop International Airlines . In early 2000 the freighter fleet consisted of 12 Dassault Falcon 20DCs and three Douglas DC-9-15Fs , the first of which was taken over in March 1998. In addition, the company has been operating a Dassault Falcon 10 as a passenger aircraft since June 1995 .
Reliant Airlines ceased operations at the end of 2002 and filed for bankruptcy. Douglas Kalitta bought parts of the company in January 2003, from which the cargo airline Kalitta Charters II emerged . The Air Operator Certificate from Reliant Airlines was transferred to the new company in August 2003. In September 2004, Kalitta Charters II took over its first three Boeing 727-200 cargo aircraft . The fleet was modernized from January 2015 with converted Boeing 737-400s . The company put the first Boeing 737-300 converted into a freighter into service at the beginning of October 2017.
fleet
As of April 2018, the Kalitta Charters II fleet consists of 15 aircraft with an average age of 37.1 years.
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks |
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| Boeing 727-200F | 6th | ||
| Boeing 737-300F | 1 | ||
| Boeing 737-400 | 1 | Passenger aircraft, currently in storage | |
| Boeing 737-400F | 4th | one machine is currently in storage | |
| Douglas DC-9-15F | 2 | ||
| Douglas DC-9-33F | 1 | ||
| total | 15th |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Worldhistory, Reliant Airlines (in English), accessed April 2, 2018
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 86
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 87/88
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 88/89
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2000/01
- ↑ US Federal Register, Vol. 68, No. 150, August 5, 2003 (in English) Retrieved April 2, 2018
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2005/06
- ↑ Ch-Aviation, First B737-400 being converted to freighter for Kalitta Charters, December 31, 2014 , accessed April 2, 2018
- ↑ Ch-Aviation, Kalitta Charters II adds maiden B737-300 freighter, October 5, 2017 (in English), accessed April 2, 2018
- ↑ Ch-Aviation, Kalitta Charters II fleet as of April 2, 2018 (in English), accessed on April 2, 2018
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