cargo airline
Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of air cargo, cargo by air. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines.
In 2018, airline ...
based on the grounds of
Addison Airport
Addison Airport is a public airport in Addison, in Dallas County, Texas, United States, north of downtown Dallas., effective 2007-12-20 It opened in 1954 and was purchased by the town of Addison in 1976. It is home to the Cavanaugh Fligh ...
in
Addison
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Places Canada
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United States
*Addison, Alabama
*Addison, Illinois
*Addison Street in Chicago, Illinois which runs by Wrigley Field
* Addison, Kentucky
*Addison, Maine
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*Addison, New York
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,
Texas
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,
USA
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, near
Dallas
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.Contact Us ." Martinaire. Retrieved on February 12, 2011. " 4553 Glenn Curtiss Avenue, Addison, Texas 75001." It operates feeder flights for overnight package delivery services, most notably on behalf of UPS. It is owned by Xwing.
History
The airline was established and started operations in 1978 and acquired the freight operations of
CCAir
CCAir, Inc. ( NASDAQ: CCAR) was a regional airline headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States."World Airline Directory". ''Flight International''. March 23, 199968 Retrieved on September 30, 2009.
Piedmont Commuter
CCAir was create ...
on 2 January 1990. It was in turn bought by a group of investors led by The Acker Group in December 1993. In 2005, Martinaire acquired fellow package carrier Mid Atlantic Aviation. In 2006, Martinaire acquired Superior Aviation of Lansing, Michigan. In 2011 Martinaire began acquiring Beechcraft 1900 aircraft to replace the
Fairchild Metroliner
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San ...
, a move completed by mid-2012. The Beech 1900 aircraft were later removed and sold to
Alpine Air
Alpine Air Express is an American airline based in Provo, Utah, USA. It operates scheduled air cargo services on over 100 routes throughout Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah. Its main ...
.
As of January 2013, Martinaire is the second-largest single feeder carrier in the country.
The company was acquired by
autonomous aircraft
An autonomous aircraft is an aircraft which flies under the control of automatic systems and needs no intervention from a human pilot. Most autonomous aircraft are unmanned aerial vehicle or drones. However, autonomous control systems are reachi ...