Phoenix Air
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| IATA code : | PH |
| ICAO code : | PHA |
| Call sign : | GRAY BIRD |
| Founding: | 1978 |
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Cartersville , Georgia , United States
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| Home airport : | Cartersville Airfield |
| Company form: | Corporation |
| Fleet size: | 26th |
| Aims: | worldwide |
| Website: | phoenixair.com |
The Phoenix Air Group, Inc. (trading as Phoenix Air is) an American charter airline headquartered in Cartersville , Georgia .
history
The Phoenix Air Group was founded in Atlanta in 1978 as a demand airline and started operations with two Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft . Other small aircraft, including the Piper PA-31 , added to the fleet in the years that followed. From the mid-1980s, the company continued business aircraft type Learjet 23 a.
Order services (ad hoc charter), freight transport and ambulance flights for private customers or companies are carried out under the name Phoenix Air . Major customers now include various US federal agencies and ministries. In 2011, the company received approximately US $ 46 million in government contracts.
In 2013, Phoenix Air won a tender from the Department of Health and Human Services . As a result, two Gulfstream III ambulances were equipped with enlarged doors and a biological protection level 4 system, making them suitable for transporting recumbent patients with highly infectious diseases. One of the aircraft (registration number: N173PA) was used in autumn 2014 for the repatriation of two US citizens who were infected with Ebola in West Africa . In addition, the Phoenix Air Group also makes modifications to aircraft, especially for the type Grumman Gulfstream I , and operates a flight school at Cartersville airfield, which is largely owned by the company.
Under the name Phoenix Force , the company flies military training missions for various air forces as a contractor. These include target representations for air or sea warfare and target tow plows as well as the transport of target drones to the operational area. The aircraft are also used to test weapon systems and electronic countermeasures.
fleet
As of October 2014, the Phoenix Air Group's fleet consists of 26 aircraft:
- 4 Learjet 35
- 2 Learjet 35 A
- 7 Learjet 36 A
- 8 Grumman Gulfstream I , the largest airworthy fleet of its type
- 1 Grumman Gulfstream II
- 1 Grumman Gulfstream II B
- 3 Gulfstream III , including two machines that are suitable for transporting patients with highly infectious diseases (e.g. Ebola fever ).
Incidents
- On January 8, 1988, a Learjet 36A crashed while approaching Memphis Airport , killing the crew.
- On December 14, 1994, a Learjet 35A caught fire, killing the crew.
- On December 3, 2002, a Learjet 36 crashed into a moose while taking off from Astoria Airport . The take-off was canceled, but the aircraft did not come to a stop about 55 meters after the runway and was destroyed by a subsequent fire. The crew and the two passengers were not harmed.
See also
Web links
- Phoenix Air website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Phoenix Air, Company Overview ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international Edition 87/88
- ↑ Federal Contracts to Phoenix Air Group Inc. (FY 2011)
- ↑ a b c The Obscure Airline That Evacuated the American Ebola Patients
- ↑ Phoenix Air ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 20, 2014
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ^ Accident report of the NTSB (English), accessed on October 29, 2014
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