The airline was established as Yutana Airlines in 1987 and renamed to Alaska Central Express in 1994[4] when the certificate was bought from the Part 135 in Fairbanks, Alaska.[citation needed]
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.[5]
Destinations
Alaska Central Express operates freight services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005):[citation needed]
On 7 July 2020, ACE acquired eight Beechcraft planes at Ravn Alaska's bankruptcy auction.[6]
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.[7][8]
On 8 March 2013, ACE Beech 1900C (N116AX) operating as Flight 51 from King Salmon (PAKN) to Dillingham (PADL) crashed near the Muklung Hills-Aleknagik. The only two persons on board, the captain and copilot, died.
