Mountain Air Cargo
Mountain Air Cargo is a cargo airline based in Denver, North Carolina. It is a major contract carrier for FedEx Express, operating in the eastern United States and the Caribbean. MAC is one of the largest feeder airlines in the United States. Previous operations in South America have been discontinued by FedEx who now operate jet aircraft in that area. Its main maintenance facility is at Kinston Regional Jetport. All of the ATR and C208 aircraft operated by Mountain Air are owned by Fedex Express, and are operated by MAC on a "dry lease" basis.
History
The airline was established in 1974 and is wholly owned by Air T, Inc. It has 270 employees (as of November 2015).
Incidents and accidents
Air cargo
Air cargo is any property carried or to be carried in an aircraft. Air cargo comprises air freight, air express and airmail.
Aircraft types
Cargo can be transported by passenger, cargo or combi aircraft:
History
Early years
The first cargo flight took place on the 7 November 1910 in the USA, between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. Philip Orin Parmelee piloted a Wright Model B aeroplane 65 miles (105 km) carrying a package of 200 pounds of silk for the opening of a store. Newspaper clippings quoted the Wright brothers as stating he covered the distance in 66 minutes, but the flight was officially recorded at 57 minutes, a world speed record at the time. It was the first “cargo only” flight solely for the transport of goods; the first flight commissioned by a client, and the first example of multimodal air transport, since the pieces of silk were transported by car from Columbus aerodrome to the store.
Mountain Air
Mountain Air may refer to:
Mountain Air (New Zealand)
Mountain Air is a scenic flight operation founded in 1988 and is based at the Chateau Airfield on the edge of the Tongariro National Park Dual World Heritage area. The majority of Mountain Air’s business is scenic flights, but the company also provides charter flight options, and is the sole provider of aerial tracking for Kiwi and Short-tailed bats in the Central North Island.
Mountain Air is owned by Bhrent and Kathy Guy. A former part of the company is now operating independently as Fly My Sky in the Auckland Region.
History
Mountain Air was founded in 1988 by Keith and Robyn McKenzie and used a Cessna 172 and 206 to conduct scenic flights over the Tongariro National Park. The company established an airstrip on a high country sheep station airfield at the base of the active volcano, Mount Ruapehu. Recently passengers have had the added attraction of viewing sites in the Park where filming for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy took place.
Two Britten Norman Islanders and two Piper Aztec aircraft were added to the fleet and services extended to provide New Zealand wide charter. Schedule services were developed to provide several flights a day between Auckland International Airport, Whangarei and Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf in 1998. Two more Britten-Norman Islander aircraft were added to the fleet in 2006 & 2007.
Mountain Air (Nepal)
Mountain Air was an airline based in Nepal. Its aircraft were re-possessed in 2002.
History
Mountain Air was established in April 2000. In November 2002 the Raytheon took back possession of two aircraft from Mountain Air because the airline defaulted on the aircraft-leasing arrangements.
Services
Destinations included the Nepal cities of Bhairawa, Biratnagar, Nepalgunj and Pokhara.
Fleet
Mountain Air operated two Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliners.
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