Grand Canyon Airlines
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| Founded | 1927 | ||||||
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| Hubs | Grand Canyon, Boulder City | ||||||
| Fleet size | 19 | ||||||
| Destinations | 4 | ||||||
| Company slogan | With Grand Canyon Airlines, Your Memories are Cleared for Takeoff! | ||||||
| Parent company | Grand Canyon Airlines | ||||||
| Headquarters | Tusayan, Arizona, USA | ||||||
| Key people | Charles Bassett, Mike McComb, Craig Sanderson | ||||||
| Website | http://www.grandcanyonairlines.com/ | ||||||
Grand Canyon Airlines is an 14 CFR Part 135 air carrier headquartered on the grounds of Boulder City Airport, Boulder City, NV. Grand Canyon Airlines also has bases at Grand Canyon National Park Airport, AZ, and Page Airport, AZ. It operates sightseeing tours and scheduled passenger service over and around the Grand Canyon. Its headquarters and main operation center is Grand Canyon National Park Airport and Boulder City Airport, Nevada.
It is owned by Elling Halvorson and has 70 employees (at March 2007). Grand Canyon Airlines introduced commercial airline service to Boulder City Airport on June 15, 1936.
The airline was started in 1927 as Scenic Airways by J. Parker Van Zandt at Grand Canyon, Arizona with a Stinson SM-1 Detroiter and Ford Trimotor aircraft. Scenic Airways changed its name to Grand Canyon Airlines in 1930, and Grand Canyon Airlines is believed to be the world's oldest air tour company in continuous operations.
Two Grand Canyon Airlines pilots were the first to spot the wreckage left by the 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, between United and TWA Airlines aircraft. Pilots Henry and Palin Hudgen had been flying a scheduled service around the area at the time.
On March 19, 2009 Grand Canyon Airlines moved its operations at the Boulder City Municipal Airport into the company's new Boulder City Aerocenter, a 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m2) terminal.
As of October 2015 the Grand Canyon Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft:
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