Hemet, California, late in 1984 to offer scheduled Piper lightplane flights to Los Angeles, Bullhead City, and Lake Havasu City.
Early in 1985, the company is reformed and renamed Desert Airlines.
AIR HUDIK (AIR HUDIKSVAL-FLYGBOLAGET I HUDIKS-VALL, A. B.): Sweden (1982-1996). Organized at Hudiksvall, Air Hudik, A. B. undertakes scheduled weekday-only passenger commuter flights between its base, Arlanda Airport at Stockholm, and the coastal community of Soderhamn. Air taxi and charter flights are also made. Initial equipment comprises a Dornier 228-200 and a Beech Super King Air 200.
By 1986, President Bjorn Rahmstrom and General Manager Rolf Blom have strengthened their fleet through the addition of a King Air 90. A Shorts 360 is acquired in December and is employed, beginning in January 1987, to fly passengers from Hudiksvall to Stockholm by day and mail from Sundsvall to Stockholm by night. Services are inaugurated to Vasa and Umea in 1988. Sundsvall joins the route network in 1989.
In 1990, the Dornier is withdrawn, along with the King Air 90, and is replaced by a second Shorts 360. As airline companies jockey for position in a soon-to-be deregulated industry, Air Hudik purchases control of Swedewings, A. B. in July. The Super King Air 200 is deleted in 1991 as General Manager Blom acquires two de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otters.
The Canadian turboprops are placed into storage in 1992 as recession hits Sweden. In 1993-1995, flights are operated with three Shorts 360s, but operations cease in 1996.
AIR HYANNIS: United States (1977-1982). FBO Hyannis Aviation, based at Barnstable Municipal Airport in Massachusetts, forms an airline operating division on May 17, 1977 to offer scheduled passenger services to Boston and Nantucket. President Thomas R. Gorman assembles a fleet of 3 Cessna 402s, 1 Piper PA-32R Cherokee Lance, 1 PA-32 Cherokee Six, and 1 Cessna 210 (some of which also undertake flight training and charters) with which to inaugurate commuter flights on July 13.
Daily roundtrip operations continue apace during 1978, with en-planements for the first full year reaching 2,330. New local services are initiated in 1979 as the workforce is increased by 35% to 27. Passenger boardings skyrocket 233.3% to 10,000.
Operations continue apace in 1980, but the PATCO air traffic controllers’ strike of 1981 and general economic downturn causes financial problems so severe that the carrier must cease operations in 1982.
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