Everts Air is an American

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based in

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Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U ...

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. It operates scheduled and

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as well as

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services within Alaska and

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. Its main base is

Fairbanks International Airport Fairbanks International Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three miles (5 km) southwest of the central business district of Fairbanks, a city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough of the United States state of Alaska. Fairba ...

with its major hub at

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is a major airport in the U.S. state of Alaska, located southwest of downtown Anchorage. The airport is named for Ted Stevens, a U.S. senator from Alaska in office from 1968 to 2009. It is include ...

. The company slogan is ''Legendary Aircraft. Extraordinary Service.''

History

A family-owned business run by Robert W. Everts who created Tatonduk Flying Service in 1977 with a single

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aircraft to provide air transportation for

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in the remote places of Alaska. Since 1980, his father, Clifford R. Everts, has owned and operated Everts Air Fuel Inc., which specializes in airlifting flammable and hazardous materials. In 1993 the airline, originally

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Part 135 certified (Commuter and On-Demand Operations), became FAR Part 121 certified (Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations) as Tatonduk Outfitters Limited purchased Everts Air. With the introduction of larger aircraft like the

Douglas DC-6 The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with t ...

B and

Curtiss-Wright The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations in and outside the United States. Created in 1929 from the consolidation of Curtiss, Wright, and v ...

C-46 Commando The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a twin-engine transport aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurised high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 in company pub ...

the company split between Everts Air Alaska and

Everts Air Cargo Everts Air Cargo is an American Part 121 airline based in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. It operates D.O.D, scheduled and charter airline cargo within Alaska, Canada, Mexico and the continental United States. Its maintenance base is Fairbanks Interna ...

Operating the Douglas DC-6

Everts Air Cargo DC-6 lifting off from ANC (IMG 1390a)

Since

Northern Air Cargo Northern Air Cargo, LLC (NAC) is an American cargo airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. NAC operates a small fleet of Boeing 737-300s and Boeing 737-400 freighter aircraft within the state of Alaska as well as widebody Boeing 767-300 freigh ...

abandoned their regular service with the

, Everts Air Cargo is the last airline in the United States to operate scheduled flights with a rather large fleet of 60-year-old piston-powered aircraft. In a 2007 video interview, the Anchorage Station Manager stated that the DC-6 was still considered to be a valuable aircraft for operations in the harsh conditions of Alaska, with excellent landing and takeoff performance on gravel runways. The downside is the difficulty to find

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and the maintenance labor cost. Everts Air Cargo estimates a ratio of 12 hours of maintenance for every single flying hour. Spare parts could also be a problem but Everts Air Cargo anticipates they will have enough in stock to keep the last DC-6 flying beyond 2020.

Zero Gravity Corporation Boeing 727

Since 2015 Everts Air has operated a Boeing 727-227F for the

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(also known as ZERO-G), which previously operated with Amerijet International. The aircraft is based in the

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and operates weightless flights. Unlike

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, ZERO-G is governed under Part 121 of FAA regulations, enabling the company to cater to both tourists and researchers alike.

Destinations

Everts Air operates scheduled freight and passengers services to the following domestic destinations: * Allakaket (AET) -

Allakaket Airport Allakaket Airport , is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) north-northwest of the central business district of Allakaket, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is so ...

Anaktuvuk Pass The Anaktuvuk Pass ("the place of caribou droppings", el. 2,200 ft.) is a mountain pass located in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in North Slope Borough in northern Alaska. The Anaktuvuk Pass is in the Brooks Range which div ...

(AKP) -

Anaktuvuk Pass Airport Anaktuvuk Pass Airport is a public use airport located in Anaktuvuk Pass, a city in the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by North Slope Borough. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport ha ...

Anchorage Anchorage () is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska by population. With a population of 291,247 in 2020, it contains nearly 40% of the state's population. The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring ...

(ANC) -

(hub) * Aniak (ANI) -

Aniak Airport Aniak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in Aniak, a city in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Its location on the Kuskokwim River also allows for the landing of seaplanes. As per Federal Aviation Administrat ...

* Arctic Village (ARC) -

Arctic Village Airport Arctic Village Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.8 km) southwest of the central business district of Arctic Village, a Native American village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is ...

* Barrow (BRW) -

Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial, is a public airport located in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), the largest city and borough seat of the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The ai ...

Beaver Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers a ...

(WBQ) - Beaver Airport *

Bethel Bethel ( he, בֵּית אֵל, translit=Bēṯ 'Ēl, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; el, Βαιθήλ; la, Bethel) was an ancient Israelite sanc ...

(BET) -

Bethel Airport Bethel Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Bethel, a city in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Admini ...

* Bettles (BTT) -

Bettles Airport Bettles Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in Bettles, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Facilities and aircraft Bettles Airport covers 1,195 acres which contains one runway designated 1 ...

* Dillingham (DLG) -

Dillingham Airport Dillingham Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) west of the central business district of Dillingham, a city in the Dillingham Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled passenger ser ...

Eagle Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, j ...

(EAA) - Eagle Airport * Emmonak (EMK) -

Emmonak Airport Emmonak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in Emmonak, Alaska, Emmonak, a city in the Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, Kusilvak Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location ...

(FAI) -

(hub) *

Fort Yukon Fort Yukon (''Gwichyaa Zheh'' in Gwich'in) is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska, straddling the Arctic Circle. The population, predominantly Gwich'in Alaska Natives, was 583 at the 2010 census, down from 595 ...

(FYU) -

Fort Yukon Airport Fort Yukon Airport
, published 15 March 152007 is a state-owned public-use

Galena Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver. Galena is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals. It cr ...

(GAL) -

Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located in Galena, Alaska, Galena, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration r ...

* Iliamna (ILI) -

Iliamna Airport Iliamna Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (5.5 km) west of the central business district of Iliamna, in the Lake and Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Facilities Iliamna Airport has tw ...

King Salmon The Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon in North America, as well as the largest in the genus ''Oncorhynchus''. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other ve ...

(AKN) -

King Salmon Airport King Salmon Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located just southeast of King Salmon, in the Bristol Bay Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. It was formerly the Naknek Air Force Base, named for its location near the Naknek River. ...

(hub) * Kotzebue (OTZ) -

Ralph Wien Memorial Airport Ralph Wien Memorial Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located on the south side of Kotzebue, a city on the Baldwin Peninsula in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Facilities and aircraft Ralph Wien Memorial Ai ...

* Lake Minchumina (MHM/LMA) - Minchumina Airport * Nome (OME) -

Nome Airport Nome Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) west of the central business district of Nome, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Administration rec ...

Prudhoe Bay Prudhoe Bay is a census-designated place (CDP) located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 2,174 people, up from just five residents in the 2000 census; however, at any give ...

(SCC) -

Deadhorse Airport Deadhorse Airport is a public airport located in Deadhorse on the North Slope of Alaska. It can be accessed from Fairbanks via the Elliott and Dalton highways. It is near Prudhoe Bay and is sometimes also called Prudhoe Airport. Facilities ...

* St. Mary's (KSM) - St. Mary's Airport *

Unalakleet Unalakleet ( ; ik, Uŋalaqłiq, ; russian: Уналаклит) is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States, in the western part of the state. At the 2010 census the population was 688, down from 747 in 2000. Unalakleet is known in the ...

(UNK) -

Unalakleet Airport Unalakleet Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) north of the central business district of Unalakleet, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. Facilities and aircraft Unalakleet Air ...

Venetie Venetie ( ;Corey Goldberg," ''New York Times'', 9 May 1997. ''Vįįhtąįį'' in Gwich’in), is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska. At the 2010 census, the population was 166, down from 202 in 2000. It include ...

(VEE) -

Venetie Airport Venetie Airport is a public use airport located in Venetie, in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is privately owned by the Venetie Tribal Government. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1 ...

Fleet

Everts Air Cargo C-46 leaving ANC for the Bush (6479960089)

Everts Air fleet includes: * 2 Air Tractor AT-802 configured to carry fuel for Everts Air Fuel operations * 1 Boeing 727-227F operated for

* 1

Cessna 206 The Cessna 205, 206, and 207, known primarily as the Stationair (and marketed variously as the Super Skywagon, Skywagon and Super Skylane) are a family of single-engined, general aviation aircraft with fixed landing gear, used in commercial air ...

H * 1 Cessna C208B Grand Caravan * 1 Curtiss-Wright C-46D * 1 Curtiss-Wright C-46F * 2 Curtiss-Wright C-46R * 6

Douglas DC-6A The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with ...

* 2

Douglas DC-6B The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with ...

* 2 Douglas DC-9-32F * 6 Douglas DC-9-33F * 2

Douglas DC-9-41 The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced by the developer company as the Douglas DC-9 until August 1967 and then by McDonnell Douglas. After ...

* 7 Douglas C-118A * 3

Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia The Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia is a twin-turboprop 30-passenger commuter airliner designed and manufactured by the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. The EMB 120 began development during 1974. While initially conceived as a modular series of ...

* 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 * 6

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* 2 Pilatus PC-12/47 * 2 Piper PA-32R-300 Twelve of the above aircraft (two DC-9, two MD-80, seven DC-6 and one C-46) are inactive or in storage. In July 2020 Everts Air Cargo acquired six

Cessna 208 The Cessna 208 Caravan is a utility aircraft produced by Cessna. The project was commenced on November 20, 1981, and the prototype first flew on December 9, 1982. The production model was certified by the FAA in October 1984 and its Cargo ...

at Ravn Alaska's bankruptcy auction.

References

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External links

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