Frontier Alaska was the name under which HoTH, Inc., marketed the services of its multiple airline holdings:

Frontier Flying Service Frontier Flying Service (d/b/a Ravn Connect) was an American airline headquartered in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It operated an extensive network of year-round scheduled commuter services and postal services to Alaska bush communities, ...

Hageland Aviation Services Hageland Aviation Services (Defunct) was a regional FAR Part 135 airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It operated as the Ravn Connect component of Ravn Alaska, serving many destinations throughout Alaska. History The airline was ...

, and

Era Aviation Era Aviation was a fixed wing airline as well as a commercial helicopter operation based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. It operated a network of scheduled fixed wing passenger services from Anchorage as well as from Bethel, AK on behalf of ...

. It is now part of the Ravn group of companies of

Ravn Alaska Northern Pacific Airways, Inc., d.b.a. Ravn Alaska, is an Alaskan airline that specializes in serving the small communities in the US state of Alaska. The airline is headquartered in Anchorage, which is also home to its primary hub, Ted Steve ...

/ Ravn Connect / Ravn Connect - Charters. These HoTH airlines group of companies are featured in the television show

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History

The name Frontier Alaska began to be used following the June 2008 merger of Frontier Flying Service with Hageland Aviation Services, with the name applied to the operations of both airlines. On July 8, 2008, Seattle based

Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines is a major American airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the sixth largest airline in North America when measured by fleet size, scheduled passengers carried, and the num ...

announced Frontier Alaska as a new

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partner beginning in the fall of 2008. On February 27, 2009, Frontier Alaska, acquired rival

of Anchorage, Alaska. Era Aviation will be

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ERA Alaska Northern Pacific Airways, Inc., d.b.a. Ravn Alaska, is an Alaskan airline that specializes in serving the small communities in the US state of Alaska. The airline is headquartered in Anchorage, which is also home to its primary hub, Ted Stev ...

once it operations are rationalized into the Frontier Alaska /

Era Alaska Northern Pacific Airways, Inc., d.b.a. Ravn Alaska, is an Alaskan airline that specializes in serving the small communities in the US state of Alaska. The airline is headquartered in Anchorage, which is also home to its primary hub, Ted Stev ...

fleets and their representative FAA and DOT operating certificates. In 2014 with the merger, integration, and asset rationalization mostly complete, Frontier Alaska was rebranded as Ravn Alaska and Ravn Connect. Ravn Alaska the FAA part 121 operations of the Ravn business, predominantly utilizes the former assets of Era Aviation; while Ravn Connect, the FAA Part 135 of the Ravn business, predominately utilizes the assets of the former Hageland Aviation. Frontier Flying Services and Arctic Circle Air assets have thus been overtaken by these two regulatory mandated business sectors HoTH Inc. remains the parent holding company of all assets of the business to this day.

HoTH Inc. Fleet

At present the Frontier Alaska fleet includes the following aircraft at the various pre-merger airlines.

Era Aviation

* 7 Bombardier Dash 8 Q106 * 3 Beechcraft 1900D * 3

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Frontier Flying Service

* 0 Raytheon Beech BE-1900-C * 2 Piper PA-31-350 * 2 Shorts SD-330 Sherpa

Hageland Aviation Services

* 21 Cessna Caravan 208B * 6 Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliner * 17

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* 4 Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II * 6

Piper PA-31 Chieftain The Piper PA-31 Navajo is a family of cabin-class, twin-engined aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft for the general aviation market, most using Lycoming engines. It was also license-built in a number of Latin American countries. Ta ...

Arctic Circle Air

*2 Shorts 330-200s *3 Shorts Skyvans

Arctic Circle Air bought by Frontier Alaska and to be operated under Era Aviations certificate.

References

External links

Frontier Alaska web site
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