14 Facts About Kenmore Air

Kenmore Air originally made its money by accessing remote and sometimes dangerous locations during its early years.

Kenmore Air became an official aircraft and parts dealer for Cessna by the end of the 1950s, further expanding its aircraft maintenance business.

Kenmore Air leased an aircraft to the US government for survey flights in Alaska.

In 1953, a Canadian mining company hired Kenmore Air to help fly in equipment and tools to build a mining camp on Leduc Glacier, fifty miles north of Ketchikan, Alaska.

Kenmore Air used two Noorduyn Norseman and a Seabed to fly in equipment over a two-month period.

Related searches

Kenmore Air added two Turbine Beavers in the late 1980s and purchased its main competitor Lake Union Air in 1992.

Kenmore Air acquired Lake Union Air Service in 1993; in 1997 it planned to begin operating service from Elliott Bay, a body of water on Puget Sound where Seattle's downtown waterfront is located.

In 1998, Kenmore Air gained a federal permit allowing them to begin operations there, pending approval from Seattle's city council.

Kenmore Air later abandoned its plans in fall 1999 after encountering resistance from members of the local community.

Kenmore Air has responded by encouraging their pilots to follow limited flight paths in Seattle In 2013 when new high rise condos were proposed by Vulcan in South Lake Union neighborhood, Kenmore requested that an easement be placed on new residents to prevent them from filing noise complaints.

In January 2014, Kenmore Air announced a regular commercial service between Nanaimo Airport and Boeing Field in Seattle, with a free shuttle between Boeing Field and Sea-Tac.

Kenmore Air Express provides daily, year-round service to the Washington communities of Eastsound and Friday Harbor.

Kenmore Air's livery appears in Microsoft Flight Simulator X on the Cessna 208 Caravan and de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver.

Kenmore Air's livery appears in the popular mobile flight simulator Infinite Flight on the C208.