ECS is established at Bethel in the fall of 1983 to provide scheduled passenger and cargo services to local communities and bush destinations.
Revenue flights commence in November with a fleet of Cessna 185s, 206s, and 207s and are maintained until May 31, 1985, when the company is purchased by Ryan Air Service. Integration is completed next day.
EXECUTIVE FLIGHT: Pangborn Memorial Airport, East Wenatchee, Washington 98802, United States; Phone (509) 884-1545; Fax (509) 884-0534; Year Founded 1982. Executive Flight is founded at East Wenatchee in 1982 to provide executive and small group passenger charters to worldwide destinations.
Eighteen years later, the company employs 25 pilots and operates a large fleet of business aircraft, including 2 each Learjet 35A Longhorns, Cessna 182 Skylanes, and Piper PA-34 Senecas, as well as 1 each Learjet 31, Canadair 600 Challenger, and Grumman 840 Commander Jet-prop.
EXECUTIVE FLIGHT MANAGEMENT: 5923 S. Central Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60638, United States; Phone (773) 735-6906; Fax (773) 735-5622; Year Founded 1984. EFM is set up at Chicago (MDW) in 1984 to offer executive flight management of corporate aircraft as well as executive and small group passenger charters on a worldwide basis.
During the next 16 years, the company grows to employ 22 full-time pilots and operates a mixed fleet of 1 each Grumman G-1159 Gulf-stream II, Dassault Falcon 20, British Aerospace BAe (HS) 125-700 Hawker, Cessna 525 Citation, and Beech King Air 100.
EXECUTIVE FLIGHT SERVICES: United States (1977-1980). Executive Flight Services, a charter operation, elects to form a scheduled airline division at Portland, in August 1977 and begins to operate new scheduled flights under that name. Initial services commence with a Piper PA-31-310 Navajo.
Enplanements for the first year total 6,919.
Two Fairchild-Swearingen Metro IIs are purchased in 1978 and frequencies are increased over a network that grows to include eight Oregon cities plus Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. Bookings skyrocket 392% to 34,049.
Passenger boardings rise again in 1979, up 252% to 119,858. Revenues total $6.06 million and expenses $5.88 million; however, an $824,899 loss is suffered.
In 1980, the parent elects to rename its airline subsidiary Air Oregon, giving it a new logo and its aircraft new liveries. At this point, the fleet comprises 6 Metro IIs, and 1 each Metro IIA and Navajo.
EXECUTIVE JET AVIATION: United States (1970-1989). Columbus (Ohio)-based EJA is established in the spring of 1970 to offer passenger charter and contract service flights throughout the U. S. The fleet, comprised of business types, will come to consist primarily of Learjets. One of these, an L-23A, crashes near the Emmet County Airport at Pell-ston, Michigan, on May 9.
Operations continue without major incident over the next 15 years. In 1985, the fleet includes 12 Learjet 25 s, 5 Learjet 24s, 1 Learjet 35A, and 1 British Aerospace BAe 125-400 Hawker. Flights cease by the end of the decade.
EXIN COMPANY, LTD.: Rynek 18, 20-111 Lublin, Katowice, Poland; Phone 48 (81) 532-1247; Fax 48 (81) 532-5904; Http://www. exin. pl; Year Founded 1991. Exin is established at Katowice in January 1991 and is one of the first private air companies in postwar Poland. The concern operates initially as a helicopter company, providing heli-taxi, fire-fighting, and heavy lift services with a fleet of Mil Mi-2s.
In 1992, Exin secures a contract to fly charter all-cargo freight flights for DHL Worldwide Express. That operation begins employing a Let L-410 freighter.
In 1993. the Let is replaced with an Antonov An-26 with three times the payload. The company web page, put up seven years later, proudly reports that in 1996 the carrier’s Antonov participates in the transport support of the Granada-Dakar rally.
All-cargo services to various European destinations on behalf of DHL continue during the remainder of the decade. In addition to standard cargo, the carrier also transports hazardous materials, live animals, and perishable items. During these years, the fleet of An-26s is boosted to three. Airline employment at the beginning of 2000 stands at 30.
EXPEDITION AIRWAYS (PTY.), LTD.: P. O. Box AP12, Harare Airport, 170 Chinkoyi Street, Harare, Zimbabwe; Phone (263-4) 781390; Fax (263-4) 781399; Http://www. africaonline. co. zw/expedi-tion; Code FO; Year Founded 1997. Expedition is formed by Denver and Yvonne Hornsby at Harare in 1997 to provide scheduled and charter passenger services. Denver Hornsby, an expatriate American, had come to Zimbabwe a decade earlier and served as a captain with Air Zimbabwe, Ltd. and an official with the government’s Department of
Commercial Aviation. Two Beech 1900Cs are obtained and four pilots are recruited. These are employed to initiate revenue flights on July 27 to Kariba, Victoria Falls, and Bulawayo, and from Harare to Johannesburg via Masvingo and Chiredzi.
A homepage is opened on the Internet’s World Wide Web in 1998 and flights are started to Vilankulos in Mozambique. Service is maintained in 1999-2000.
EXPRESS AIR COMPANY: P. O. Box 25, E-425, Moscow, 105425, Russia; Phone 7 (095) 164 56 51; Fax 7 (095) 164 56 06; Code PSR; Year Founded 1995. EAC is established at Moscow on June 28, 1995, to offer domestic, regional, and international all-freight charters. Nikolai Bomko is named president and he recruits a workforce of 51. One each Antonov An-12 and Ilyushin Il-76T are acquired and allow revenue flights to commence on September 15.
Nonscheduled services are continued and a wide variety of destinations are visited over the next five years. Principal among these is Sharjah and Libreville. During this time, a second Il-76T is acquired.
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