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Evergreen International Airlines was a cargo airline based in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. It operated contract freight services, offering charters and scheduled flights, as well as wet lease services. It operated services for the U.S. military and the United States Postal Service, as well as ad hoc charter flights. Its crew base was at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. Evergreen also maintained a large aircraft maintenance and storage facility at the Pinal Air Park in Marana, Arizona that the company acquired from the CIA's Air America fleet.〔(Evergreen Maintenance Center, Inc. )〕 == History == The airline was established by Delford Smith (founder and owner) and began operations in 1960 as Evergreen Helicopters. It acquired the operating certificate of Johnson Flying Service and merged it with Intermountain Airlines from Pacific Corporation (a CIA front company) in 1975 to form Evergreen International Airlines. The holding company, Evergreen International Aviation, formed in 1979, wholly owns the airline.〔 One of Evergreen's Boeing 747 airplanes (registered N473EV, which suffered an in-flight engine separation in 1993) starred in the 1990 action film ''Die Hard 2''. Additionally, Evergreen Boeing 727's were featured in numerous films including ''Donnie Brasco'' with Al Pacino, and ''The Rookie'' with Clint Eastwood. On November 9, 2013, it was announced that Evergreen Airlines would close on November 30, 2013 due to financial troubles. This information was denied by Evergreen shortly after,〔(Official press release )〕 however "Evergreen International Airlines flew its last flight Monday (2, 2013 ) Mike Hines, chairman of its parent company board, acknowledged..." Evergreen also owned a museum and waterpark, called the Evergreen Wings and Waves Waterpark. This remains open, despite the company's bankruptcy. One of Evergreen's 747-100s is mounted on the roof of the waterpark, serving as the housing for the top of one of the Waterpark's slides. On December 31, 2013, Evergreen International Airlines filled a Chapter 7 petition in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware. The bankruptcy filing lists seven entities as submitting the Chapter 7 petition: Evergreen Aviation Ground Logistics Enterprise, Evergreen Defense and Security Services, Evergreen International Airlines, Evergreen International Aviation, Evergreen Systems Logistics, Evergreen Trade, and Supertanker Services. 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「Evergreen International Airlines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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