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Grand Canyon Airlines is an FAR Part 135 airline headquartered on the grounds of Grand Canyon National Park Airport in the Tusayan census-designated place in unincorporated Coconino County, Arizona, United States.〔"(Our Location )." Grand Canyon Airlines. Retrieved on October 3, 2009.〕〔"(Tusayan CDP, Arizona )." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on October 3, 2009.〕 It operates sightseeing tours over the Grand Canyon. Its headquarters and main operation center is Grand Canyon National Park Airport. It is owned by Elling Halvorson and has 70 employees (at March 2007).〔 Grand Canyon Airlines introduced commercial airline service to Boulder City Airport on June 15, 1936.〔(Boulder City - The Magazine )〕 == History == The airline was started in 1927 as Scenic Airways by J. Parker Van Zandt at Grand Canyon, Arizona with a Stinson SM-1 Detroiter and Ford Trimotor aircraft. Scenic Airways changed its name to Grand Canyon Airlines in 1930, and Grand Canyon Airlines is believed to be the world's oldest air tour company in continuous operations. Two Grand Canyon Airlines pilots were the first to spot the wreckage left by the 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, between United and TWA Airlines aircraft. Pilots Henry and Palin Hudgen had been flying a scheduled service around the area at the time.〔''Blind Trust'', by John J. Nance, William Morrow & Co., Inc. (USA), 1986, ISBN 0-688-05360-2, PP 96-97〕 On March 19, 2009 Grand Canyon Airlines moved its operations at the Boulder City Municipal Airport into the company's new ''Boulder City Aerocenter'', a terminal. 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「Grand Canyon Airlines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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