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Aeko Kula, LLC, DBA Aloha Air Cargo, is an all-cargo airline in the United States, headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, [3] [4] operating from a hub at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport. Formerly Aloha Airlines , it became an independent cargo operator following the closure of the passenger airline in 2008.
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The airline was founded as charter carrier Trans-Pacific Airlines by publisher Ruddy F. Tongg Sr. as a competitor to Hawaiian Airlines, commencing operations on July 26, 1946, with a war-surplus Douglas C-47 on a flight from Honolulu to Maui and Hilo.
The airport serves as the main hub of Hawaiian Airlines [7] and is also a base for Aloha Air Cargo. The airport is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a large-hub primary commercial service facility. [8]
Yucaipa Cos., a California-based firm headed by billionaire Ron Burkle that led a purchase of Aloha Airlines in 2006 to complete a 2004 bankruptcy restructuring, took possession of the Aloha name ...
The announcement of the Dole Air Race for a flight from California to Hawaii provided the incentive to purchase 680 acres (280 ha) in April 1927 for the airport. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The 7,020-foot-long (2,140 m) runway was the longest in the world at the time and was built in just 21 days ahead of the Dole race start.
Aloha Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines were the primary air carriers during the early and mid-1970s for inter-island flights from Honolulu on Oahu, Kahului on Maui and Lihue on Kauai with Aloha operating Boeing 737-200 jets and Hawaiian operating McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets at this time.
On October 28, 1989, Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, collided with mountainous terrain near Halawa Valley, Molokai, while en route on a scheduled passenger flight from Kahului Airport to Molokai Airport in Hoolehua. All 20 aboard the aircraft died.