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Air Cargo Carriers
IATA 2Q	ICAO SNC	Callsign NIGHT CARGO
Founded		1986
Hubs		General Mitchell International Airport
Fleet size		23
Destinations
Headquarters		Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Key people
Website: http://aircar.com/acci/

Air Cargo Carriers is a cargo airline based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It was established in 1986 and operates contract feeder cargo services for UPS and DHL. Air Cargo Carriers, Inc. is the largest civilian operator of Shorts aircraft in the world. Their Indianapolis, Ankeny IO, Salina, KS scheduled route is for John Deere tractor. It provides on-demand charter operations as well, their largest charter customer is the automobile industry. Its main base of operations is General Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee^[1].

Air Cargo Carriers has it's own Shorts Cockpit Procedures Trainer for pilot training. Pilots finish training in a Shorts simulators in La Guardia, New York City with Flight Safety Training.

The Air Cargo Carriers fleet includes the following aircraft (as of June2007)^[1] :

• 2 Dassault Falcon 20 **no longer with the company. Alliance out of Denton Texas now operates the DA20 Falcons**
• 6 Shorts 330
• 10 Shorts 360-200
• 6 Shorts 360-300
• 1 Beechcraft King Air 90

• 3 Shorts 360-300-Named "Constant Hawk" operated under contract with US Army currently in Iraq; operating recon and surveillance with additional 300 gallon auxiliary cabin fuel tanks providing 7+ hours flight time

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A fatal accident occurred on February 5, 2006 in which two of their planes collided midair over Watertown, Wisconsin. One of the planes crashed, killing all three people on board. The other plane was able to carry out a safe emergency landing at a Dodge County Airport (UNU), Juneau, Wisconsin. Air Cargo Carriers has a contract with the U.S. Army for transport operations. They use the Shorts Sherpa with the rear loading door. The two planes involved in the accident had just received installation of extended range fuel tanks (assuming fuselage tanks) to fly to Iraq. Installation was under the "experimental" certification category. The flight was performed to verify the fuel flow rates for some auxiliary fuel tanks that had been recently installed on both airplanes. Prior to departure, both flight crews decided that they would join-up after departure in order to take video and still photography of each airplane. They then proceeded to perform several fly-bys past the other aircraft who remained on constant headings and altitude. The flight crew performed an emergency landing on with flaps retracted and a partially extended landing gear. The airplane overran the end of the runway, coming to rest about 100 feet from the departure threshold. ^[2][3]

On December 10, 2004, an Air Cargo Carrier Shorts SD3-60 overran runway 30 after landing at Oshawa Airport, Ontario, Canada. The two pilots received serious injuries. The weather at the time of the accident was reported to be variable ceiling 100-300 feet overcast, 1/2 mile visibility, and wind 230 deg. at 15 knots. The investigation is being conducted by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. Company employee states both pilots were able to continue their careers and moved on to other airlines. "http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/reports/air/2004/a04o0336/a04o0336.asp"

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1. ^ ^{a b} "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-03-27, p. 54. 
2. ^ JS Online
3. ^ NTSB