Empire Airlines (Idaho) on April 3 put its first Cessna 408 SkyCourier (N734FX) into revenue service.
The new type operated from Santa Barbara to Ontario, CA as a FedEx Feeder operator.
Photo: Empire Airlines.
Kamaka Air has added its first Cessna 402 SkyCourier, the pictured N408KA.
The first Cessna C408 SkyCourier for Kamaka Air, an inter-island cargo airline based at HNL (Daniel K Inouye International Airport, Honolulu, Hawai‘i).
The aircraft made its delivery flight to HNL on March 22, 2023 from BEC (Wichita, Kansas) . It made a stop at VGT (North Las Vegas, Nevada) to have ferry tanks installed, then stopped at MRY (Monterrey, California) to top-off fuel, before crossing the Pacific Ocean.
This is also the first SkyCourier to be delivered to an airline other than the 50 ordered by Federal Express.
Route Map:
Ivan K. Nishimura reporting from Hawaii.
Top Copyright Photo: Kamaka Air Cessna 408 SkyCourier N408KA (msn 408-0009) HNL (Ivan K. Nishimura). Image: 960350.