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Airship Management Services, Inc. (AMS) builds, owns and operates Airship Industries Skyship and Sentinel type airships. AMS, run by George Spyrou, and through associated companies in the U.S., Europe and Japan, provides technical and operational support to airships worldwide. AMS is part of the Skycruiser Group of companies, which includes Skycruiser Corporation and Global Skyship Industries (formerly Westinghouse Airship Industries), and owns/operates a fleet of Skyships in America and Europe. ==Background== AMS is a private company founded in 1990,〔(Airship Management Services ) Bloomberg BusinessWeek〕 based in Greenwich, Connecticut with a maintenance facility and FAA Repair Station in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. AMS personnel, many of whom were previously with Westinghouse and Airship Industries, have been providing flight crew, technical expertise and ground support to airships since 1980, and have operated airships in Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, United States, Europe, Argentina, the Dominican Republic and other parts of the Caribbean. The AMS' clients in the United States have included Ameriquest, the New York City Police Department and Fujifilm (USA) Inc., which has been using a Skyship 600 type airship in the US since 1984, starting with the Los Angeles Summer Olympics. A Skyship was also used over the Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea in 1988 and the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. In Addition, AMS provided two Skyships for use over the Athens Olympics in 2004,〔.〕 one for use by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and the Hellenic Police in Greece, and the other for broadcasting by NBC TV. Since 1980, fifteen Skyships have been designed, built, and operated around the world for such customers as Japan Airlines, the Korean Sports Foundation, Fujifilm, the Tokyo Police, Citibank, the French Ministry of the Interior, and Pepsi-Cola. In addition, “Skycruises” (passenger tours) have been successfully operated over London, Paris, Munich, Sydney, Melbourne, Switzerland and San Francisco.〔.〕 A Skyship was used for a tour across Europe during 2006, from London to Paris to Rome to Athens, promoting The Palm Islands project in Dubai, United Arab Emirates During September and October 2007, AMS placed an unbranded Skyship over New York, based out of Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, and flew various VIPs and friends and colleagues.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Airship Management Services」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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