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| Founded | 1981 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 2020 | ||||||
| AOC # | EPUA174D [1] | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 33 | ||||||
| Destinations | 76 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Anchorage, Alaska, United States | ||||||
| Key people | James Tweto, President | ||||||
| Website | www.hageland.com | ||||||
Hageland Aviation Services was a regional FAR Part 135 airline based in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. [2] It operated as the Ravn Connect component of Ravn Alaska, serving many destinations throughout Alaska. [3]
The airline was established in 1981 in Mountain Village, Alaska.
Frontier Alaska and Hageland combined in 2008 to form the parent company HoTH and rebrand their new services as "Frontier Alaska." The following year, with the acquisition of Era, Frontier Alaska was rebranded as Era Alaska. [4] Operations ceased with the collapse and bankruptcy of Ravn Alaska in 2020.
Hageland Aviation Services operated scheduled service to the following destinations in Alaska (as of 2007 [update] ): [5]
On November 8, 1997 Hageland Aviation Services Flight 500 was performed by a Cessna Caravan 675B that crashed. This crash was determined to be caused primarily by pilot error. Please see the NTSB report- http://juneauempire.com/stories/022500/Loc_crash.html Archived 2016-08-07 at the Wayback Machine . The accident killed all 8 passengers and crew on board.
On December 9, 2002 - During a Raytheon Pre-purchase Flight, a Beechcraft 1900C crashed after running into a mountain in western Arkansas. The accident killed all 3 pilots on board, including Ron Tweto, President of Hageland Aviation Services.
January 6, 2011 A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan passenger plane, registered N715HE, sustained substantial damage in a landing accident at Kipnuk Airport, AK (KPN), U.S. None of the four passengers or two crew members were injured. The airplane operated on Hageland flight 161 from Bethel Airport, AK (BET) to Kipnuk Airport, AK (KPN).
On November 29, 2013, four people were killed when Flight 1453 crashed near the village of St. Mary's. Killed were the pilot, Terry Hanson, 68, and three passengers, all residents of Mountain Village: Rose Polty, 57, Richard Polty, 65, and Wyatt Coffee, five months old. Six more passengers were injured. The flight originated from Bethel. [6]
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