Northern Air Cargo

Northern Air Cargo
IATA code :	NC
ICAO code :	NAC
Call sign :	YUKON
Founding:	1956
Seat:	Anchorage , United States
Home airport :	Anchorage
IATA prefix code :	345
Fleet size:	7th
Aims:	within Alaska, Caribbean
Website:	www.nac.aero

Northern Air Cargo (abbreviated NAC ) is an American cargo airline based in Anchorage and based at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport there .

history

The company was founded in Alaska in 1956 as Sholton & Carlsen Inc. by Robert Sholton and Maurice Carlsen. Flight operations began with two Fairchild C-82s that had been decommissioned by the US military . In 1969, NAC received the first of 14 Douglas DC-6s to follow over the next 25 years. In March 2003 NAC tried to take over the license of the bankrupt National Airlines . This project failed and NAC was sold to the transportation company Saltchuck Resources in 2006. As a result, NAC received a new corporate design and a new aircraft.

At the end of October 2016, the company announced that, from November 1 of the same year, a Boeing 737-300 would also operate cargo flights to the Caribbean from Miami . In the period that followed, the fleet was expanded to include a Boeing 737-400 in freighter configuration, including Boeing 767-300ER aircraft - also freighters - in order to expand these connections.

Destinations

Boeing 737 of the NAC

NAC flies to the following destinations from Anchorage:

• Aniak
• Barrow
• Bethel
• Deadhorse
• Dillingham
• King Salmon
• Kotzebue
• McGrath
• Nome
• Red dog
• St. Mary's
• Unalakleet

Other airports are served depending on charter orders and requirements.

In addition to freight, NAC has also been transporting passengers to a limited extent since 2011. These are workers for oil companies and mining companies.

fleet

Current fleet

As of April 2020, Northern Air Cargo's fleet consists of seven aircraft with an average age of 28.7 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Aircraft registration	Remarks	Average age (April 2020)
Boeing 737-300F	2		N360WA		30.8 years
			N361NC
Boeing 737-400F	3		N401YK		27.7 years
			N403YK
			N405YK
Boeing 767-300ER / BDSF	2		N351CM		27.9 years
			N379CX	operated for StratAir
total	7th	-			28.7 years

A Fairchild C-82A "Packet" from the NAC, April 1985

Former aircraft types

In the past, NAC also used the following types of aircraft:

• ATR 42-300F
• Boeing 727-100
• Boeing 737-200A
• Douglas DC-3
• Douglas DC-6
• Fairchild C-82

The NAC DC-6 crashed on July 20, 1996, April 1985

NAC's DC-6 crashed on September 15, 2001, June 1989

Incidents

• On July 20, 1996 after taking off from the airport began Emmonak the engine number 3 of a DC-6A fire ( air vehicle registration N313RS ). During the subsequent approach to attempt an emergency landing at Russian Mission Airport , the right wing broke off, the aircraft tilted to the right and crashed. All 4 people on board were killed. The cause of the accident was due to material fatigue in the engine and insufficient training of the pilots for emergency situations (see also Northern Air Cargo flight 33 ) .

• On September 25, 2001 , the left wing of a DC-6BF (N867TA) broke off while landing at Alpine airfield , 100 km west of Deadhorse . As a result, the machine turned to the left and slid off the runway. In the subsequent fire, the middle part of the machine burned out, causing irreparable damage and the aircraft had to be written off. All three inmates were able to save themselves and survived. The destroyed machine was one of the only two DC-6s converted to DC-6B-ST ("Swing tail").

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Northern Air Cargo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Northern Air Cargo website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bernhard Isidor Hengi: airlines worldwide . 7th edition. NARA-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-925671-59-3 .
2. ↑ Alaska's Northern Air Cargo to start Caribbean ops. In: ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH, October 28, 2016, accessed on March 6, 2017 (English). 
3. ↑ Northern Air Cargo to add B737-400 (F) capacity. In: ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH, December 11, 2017, accessed on November 19, 2018 (English). 
4. ↑ Northern Air Cargo adds maiden B767 freighter. In: ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH, August 13, 2018, accessed on November 19, 2018 (English). 
5. ^ Northern Air Cargo Flight Schedules , accessed November 7, 2015
6. ↑ Please verify your request. Retrieved April 9, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Accident report DC-6 N313RS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 7, 2015.
8. ↑ accident report DC-6 N867TA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 7, 2015.