Advanced Air is an American scheduled commuter and private charter airline based in

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, at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport where it also owns a

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, Jet Center Los Angeles.

History

Advanced Air was founded in 2005. It began scheduled shuttle service in 2015. It won its first

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contract for

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, in October 2018 and began service in January 2019. In 2021 the company received a second Essential Air Service contract for

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. In 2022 a subsidized contract through the state of New Mexico was received to serve

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from Phoenix. The service began on August 1, 2022. Advanced Air offers select California shuttle routes in partnership with Surf Air. Surf Air manages the membership program while Advanced owns and operates the aircraft in the Surf Air livery. All partner flights are operated on the

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. In December 2019, Advanced Air began operating two

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s owned by the

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and flown under the name

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. Advanced Air operated flights during the 2019-2020 winter season from

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to Austin and Dallas, Texas as well as Hawthorne and Carlsbad, California. Due to the

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, service was suspended for the 2020–2021 ski season but resumed for the summer months of 2021 as well as the 2021-2022 winter ski season. Advanced Air then acquired its own Dornier 328JET and began flights to Mammoth Mountain, California from Burbank, Hawthorne, and Carlsbad for the 2021-2022 ski season.

Destinations

Scheduled commercial

Former destinations

Fleet

Commuter

* Beechcraft Super King Air 350 – 7 (1 standby in Hawthorne, 1 standby in Silver City)

Shuttle and private charter

– 8 * Learjet 75 – 1 *

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– 7 *

– 2 (2 operated for

) *

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– 2

References

External links

* Regional airlines of the United States Airlines established in 2005 Charter airlines of the United States Airlines based in California Hawthorne, California Companies based in Los Angeles County, California {{US-airline-stub