San Juan Airlines

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San Juan Airlines
San Juan Airlines Logo.jpg
IATA ICAO Call sign
SJNSAN JUAN
Founded
  • 1947;78 years ago (1947) [1]
  • 2002;23 years ago (2002) (operations resumed) [2]
AOC # R01A597J [3]
Hubs Bellingham Airport
Headquarters Bellingham, Washington
Website sanjuanairlines.com

San Juan Airlines is a commuter airline operating scheduled and charter flights in the U.S. state of Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its main base of operations is Bellingham near the San Juan Islands. The airline's fleet consists of Cessna 172, 206 and 207 aircraft. In 1981, San Juan Airlines acquired Pearson Aircraft which was based in Port Angeles, Washington. [4]

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On 21 May 2014, Northwest Sky Ferry, which operated since 2007, merged into San Juan Airlines. [5] In May 2019, San Juan Airlines became the third airline to begin weekly passenger service at the Paine Field airport in Snohomish County, WA. [6]

Destinations

Fleet

Britten-Norman BN-2A previously operated Britten-Norman BN-2A.jpg
Britten-Norman BN-2A previously operated

San Juan Airlines has previously used Cessna Caravan, Beechcraft 99 and Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante turboprops as well as Britten-Norman Islander and Cessna 402 prop aircraft. [7]

References

  1. "San Juan". US Commuter. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  2. "About Us". San Juan Airlines. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
  3. "San Juan Airlines - Air Operators Certificate". Federal Aviation Administration . Retrieved October 23, 2010.
  4. "Pearson Aircraft". Airline History. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  5. "Northwest Sky Ferry". Airline History. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  6. Podsada, Janice (April 24, 2019). "Paine Field lands a 3rd airline, but this one flies Cessnas". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  7. http://www.airliners.net, photos of San Juan Airlines aircraft