An Ameriflight Beechcraft Model 99 upon take-off from Mojave Air and Space Port (2009)The majority of Ameriflight's operations consists of air feeder service for major package express integrators such as UPS, FedEx, and DHL. Its other significant customers include Lantheus Medical Imaging, ACS Products, and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. On schedules set by the customers, cargo is received in the early morning from large jet freighters at hub airports and distributed by Ameriflight airplanes to smaller communities whose traffic (or airports) would not support the big airplanes. In the evening, the Ameriflight aircraft fly back to the hubs to feed them with cargo from the smaller communities, which is carried onwards to the integrators' distribution centers for sorting and redistribution to the ultimate destinations.Although demand is decreasing as use of digital imaging and electronic data transfer increases, Ameriflight also transports high-priority intercity financial documents. Pharmaceuticals, film for development, medical laboratory samples, and other miscellaneous cargo are also carried.
Ameriflight is one of the few Part 135 cargo carriers in the U.S. with a special Department of Transportation permit to carry high Transport Index radioactive cargo, an important element in the company's time-critical radioactive medical raw materials business, which transports radioactive "generator" materials between points of manufacture and cities where it is used to produce materials used in diagnostics and cancer therapy.
In addition to scheduled flying (with contract schedules set by customers), all Ameriflight bases can respond to unscheduled on-demand cargo flights to destinations in Alaska, Canada, the contiguous US, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. A single King Air 200 was used for on-demand passenger charter flights, but has since been retired.
Fleet[edit]Current[edit]An Ameriflight EMB-120ER Brasilia rests on the ramp at the company's new DFW Airport headquarters.The Ameriflight fleet includes these aircraft in November 2024:
| Aircraft |
In fleet |
Orders |
Maximum payload |
|---|
| Beechcraft Model 99 |
53 |
0 |
3,500 lb |
| SA227 Metroliner |
31 |
0 |
4,900 lb |
| Beechcraft 1900C |
26 |
0 |
5,800 lb |
| Saab 340B |
15 |
0 |
7,500 lb |
| Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia |
14 |
0 |
8,000 lb |
| Total |
139 |
0 |
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|---|
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