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De Havilland Dash 8-100 Ravn Alaska
Registration: N891EA Type: Dash 8-106 Engines: 2 × PW PW121 Serial Number: 335 First flight: Aug 1992
Ravn Alaska, is an american airline that specializes in serving the small communities in the US state of the same name. The airline is headquartered in Anchorage, which is also home to its primary hub, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. Ravn Alaska was founded on June 20, 1948, as Economy Helicopters. The company's founder, Carl Brady, flew to Alaska to work on a mapping contract for the US government. In 1967, Houston based Rowan Companies, purchased the company from the founder. In the years that followed, Economy Helicopters was renamed to Era Helicopters. In January 2014, the combined air group Era Alaska was renamed Ravn Alaska. The company pronounces its name Ravn like the bird, Raven.