M & N AVIATION: Ribas-Dominicci Airport, Isla Grande, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00904, United States; Phone (787) 722-5980; Fax (787) 723-0465; Http://www. guides. com/acg/mnaviation; Year Founded 1992. M & N is set up at San Juan in 1992 to provide executive and small group passenger charters throughout the Caribbean and to the U. S., Mexico, and Canada. Within 8 years, the company employs 4 full-time pilots and operates 1 Cessna 560 Citation V executive jet and 4 Cessna 402s.
While en route with a cargo of mail from San Juan to St. Croix on a July 8, 2000, a Cessna 402C crashes into the Caribbean Sea near Vieques. Both the aircraft and pilot are lost.
MAC-AIRE AVIATION CORPORATION: United States (19621968). Mac-Aire is set up by James Keena at Ronkonkoma, New York, in February 1962 to provide daily roundtrip air taxi services to East Hampton, Islip, Bridgeport, New Haven, and New York (LGA). Employing Piper lightplanes, the commuter inaugurates revenue frequencies on March 28.
In September 1965, Mac-Aire is one of several small New York State commuters that are joined together into the Metro Air Service, sponsored by American Airlines to provide feed for the major at New York (JFK). Operations continue apace until Kenna’s airline goes out of business in 1968.
MAC DAN AVIATION CORPORATION: 167 C Passaic Ave., Fairfield, New Jersey 07004, United States; Phone (973) 244-9400; Fax (973) 244-0239; Year Founded 1971. Originally established as the FBO at Essex County Airport in 1971, Mac Dan also undertakes executive and small group passenger charters throughout the Northeast.
In 2000, Operations Director Charles J. McKenna Jr. continues to oversee the flights of 2 Cessna 310s and 1 Beech 33 Bonanza.
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