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Old 20th Oct 2019, 20:29
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As is often the case in the code-share era, it appears that the branding of the flight is somewhat convoluted. Isn't Peninsula Aviation Services currently doing business as PenAir as a successor to the original company using a Part 121 certificate?

From the Anchorage Daily News:

The flight, PenAir Flight 3296, was sold by Alaska Airlines, which markets flights to Dutch Harbor. But the actual operator is more complicated.

The carrier is owned by Ravn Air Group and not PenAir, an Alaskan flying institution started in 1955 that filed for bankruptcy in 2017. A company called Peninsula Aviation Services Inc., which is affiliated with Ravn, bought PenAir’s assets last year in Chapter 11 proceedings.

The name on the federal certificate as the operator of the plane involved in the crash is Peninsula Aviation, a Ravn spokeswoman said. But information distributed after the crash by Ravn and Alaska Airlines repeatedly names PenAir as the operator of the flight.

Orin Seybert, who founded PenAir, said his company had nothing to do with the crash except for providing the leased Swedish Saab 2000 twin-engine turboprop that’s in the process of getting transferred over to the new owner.
PenAir did not provide or train the pilots, Seybert said.

"I really hate that it happened,” he said. “But this accident was not PenAir’s fault even though it was one of our airplanes. That was a total Ravn operation.”

Ravn operates several Alaska-based air services under its brand: Corvus Airlines (the former Era Aviation), Hageland Aviation Services and Frontier Flying Service. The company
overhauled its management team in 2017 following scrutiny for a 2016 crash in Southwest Alaska that killed two pilots and their passenger.


https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2019...red-10-others/

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