timeless

I think ACC went to look at the Skyway airplanes and decided that they didn't want them. Is the whole fleet really that bad?

Holy Toledo

Well ACC tried about 3 years ago to buy SkyWay from Loumankin. It almost went down, but Loumankin's silnet partner shot the deal down. Then in late '04 they "mysteriously" had most of thier Shorts and sole Lear 23 parked in ISM when Hurricane Charley rolled through. 2 360's were outright totalled and thier lone Sherpa (which had been engineless for some time) rolled on top of the Lear 23, totalling both. It also ripped the doors off the hangar.

The remaining Shorts (All ex-Eagle airplanes) were flown on ad-hoc in the states and the rest were sent to SJU to fly for some freight fowarder.

The ad-hoc stuff died, and then the Feds shut the place down, because dispatch in ISM had no operational control over the planes in SJU.

Those airplanes were a electrical and mechanical WRECK. If it wasn't for the Shorts basically being a brick ****house of an airplane, the operation would have died a long time ago. They ran the engines until they quit. Completely ignoring the trends. All the airplanes spent the last 5+ years of thier career before being parked in the desert in San Juan. Everything was covered with corrosion. Any time I got to peak behind a panel, I cringed.

Germack and Altnau know the SkyWay operation well, I'm sure unless it was an absolute steal, they would have steared away from anything that used to belong to Loumankin.

I guess someone bought some, because I was going through CAE last month and someone had one of thier airplanes on the ramp with the rest of the feeders over. Mabye AirNow?

timeless

On flightaware.com the only non ACC Shorts going into CAE are operated by Business Airfreight.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/RLR7369