Phoenix Air

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Phoenix Air
Phoenix Air (USA) Logo.png
IATA ICAO Callsign
PH [1] PHA [2] GRAY BIRD
Founded1978
Operating bases Cartersville Airport
Fleet size29
Headquarters Cartersville, Georgia, USA
Website www.phoenixair.com
A Phoenix Air Learjet 35 approaching Naval Air Station North Island (2009). Phoenix Air Learjet landing at North Island NAS (3767183347).jpg
A Phoenix Air Learjet 35 approaching Naval Air Station North Island (2009).

Phoenix Air Group, often just referred to as Phoenix Air, is a non-scheduled airline headquartered in Cartersville, Georgia, USA, with the city's airport serving as its base. Founded in 1978 by Army helicopter pilot and race car driver Mark Thompson, Phoenix Air operates worldwide charter flights (passenger and cargo; catering for corporate, military or air ambulance demands).

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Phoenix Air employs just over 200 people from Cartersville and the Atlanta metro area.

Fleet

In 2007, Phoenix Air had been named the world's largest owner-operator of Grumman Gulfstream I aircraft. At that time, its fleet consisted of the following: [2]

Now all of Phoenix Air's fleet of Learjets, Gulfstream G-I and Gulfstream G-III aircraft meet ICAO Chapter 3, Stage 3 Noise Compliance requirements and can operate into and out of all noise sensitive airports throughout the world.

** One Gulfstream III (G-III), N173PA, has been fitted with an Airborne Biomedical Containment System (ABCS), funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [3] It has been used for transporting of patients with the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. This is the only aircraft in the world capable of safely transporting patients of highly communicable diseases that offers a high degree of protection to the aircraft's crew and the accompanying medical staff[ citation needed ]. This aircraft is currently under an "on demand" US$5 million contract to the US State Department. As the virus spread, officials from the World Health Organization, U.N. and Britain, among others, all approached Phoenix Air to sign exclusive deals.

The bio-containment unit is a special negative pressure transport tube that allows medical personnel to treat Ebola patients while in flight. Decontamination includes hydrogen peroxide fog, quaternary ammonia, spore strip testing, and burning of the envelope. [3] [4]

As of 14 October 2014, two Phoenix Air Gulfstreams were able to carry Ebola patients, and another jet was being equipped. [5]

Accidents and incidents

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International . April 10, 2007. pp. 63–64.
  3. 1 2 Thomas A Horne (January 2015). "Mike Ott The Inside Story of a Ebola Evacuation Mission". AOPA Pilot: T-14.
  4. "U.S. has only jet to transport Ebola patients safely". Washington Times. October 1, 2014. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
  5. "Ebola Fight in Africa Is Hurt by Limits on Ways to Get Out". October 14, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
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