Alaska Central Express

The airline was established as Yutana Airlines in 1987 and renamed to Alaska Central Express in 1994 when the certificate was bought from the Part 135 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Much of the original pilots, staff, mechanics, and equipment including three Raytheon Beechcraft 1900Cs, came from MarkAir Express, a subsidiary of the bankrupt MarkAir. In 2007, with the purchase of a Beech 1900C (N115AX) combi passenger/cargo, ACE Air Cargo began charter passenger flights. Alaska Central Express, as of 2020, owns twenty airplanes with plans for future expansion.

Destinations

Alaska Central Express operates freight services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005):

Anchorage

Aniak

Atmautluak

Accidents and incidents

On 22 January 2010, Alaska Central Express Flight 22 crashed in the sea off the end of the runway seconds after taking off at Sand Point airport; both crew members died.

On 8 March 2013, Alaska Central Express Flight 51 crashed near the Muklung Hills-Aleknagik. The only two persons on board, the captain and copilot, died.