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Aircraft Spotlight Citation 500: 24,775 Hours and Still Counting On June 6, 1973, Cessna delivered Citation 500-0087 brand new from the factory in Wichita, Kan. At the time, President Nixon was winding up the Vietnam War and dealing with the Watergate scandal that later that year would bring about his resignation. Gas cost 40 cents a gallon, and the Chevrolet Monte Carlo was Motor Trend’s Car of the Year. “My Love” by Paul McCartney and Wings was the number one hit song in the United States. In 1973, the first cell phone call was made and the cash-dispensing ATM was invented. Medical air transport was just a fledgling industry. And Wayne Carr, who later in life would become President and CEO of Air Trek Air Ambulance, had just completed an Air Force technical course and was transferred to Minot AFB to become an ICBM electronics specialist. Air Trek Citation Keeps Going A lot has changed in the 38 years since then. But one thing has remained constant. Like the famous Energizer Bunny, Citation 500-0087 just keeps going and going and going. So far it has flown 24,775 hours, 16,000 of those since Air Trek Air Ambulance acquired it in 1991. And it doesn’t look like it will be retiring any time soon. Air Trek, one of the nation’s oldest air ambulance services, is a family-owned and operated air medical program that has been providing aeromedical transportation services from its Punta Gorda, Fla., base since 1978. Today, Wayne Carr heads a successful medical air transport business, overseeing a fleet of three Cessna Citations, two Cessna 414s and an “underutilized” Westwind. “I’d really rather have another Citation II at this point,” Carr says. He credits his 70’s stint in the Air Force with helping him to finance his aviation pedigree. “I was a private pilot and was just starting to use my GI Bill to get my Commercial, Instrument, Multi & CFI. The GI Bill was one of the main reasons I joined because I could never have afforded to get the advanced ratings otherwise,” he says. Get Up, Get Going Carr is impressed with the reliability of the company’s three Citations, 500-0087, 500-0252 and a Citation II: “We fly them all the time. They still do the job. They still get up, get going, and do what we need them to do.” Air Trek operates Serial Number -0087 about 300 hours a year, and in a recent busy month, the company put nearly 80 hours on it. The Citation II also logged 99 hours that month. Carr is philosophic when it comes to answering questions about age of his airplane. “When you’re going on 30 years’ worth of making a living in aviation, and the vast majority of those operating Citations, there are a lot of stories,” he says. “They’re just good airplanes. And when people look at it and say, ‘Well, it’s a high-time airplane,’ I say it is a Part 25 airplane built to the same standards that a 737 is built to. And the 737 is not even getting broke in until it has 25,000 hours. So, if it’s built to the same standards, it can keep going.” Serial Number -0087 is a classic today, an early model Citation that is the fleet leader in total flight time for the great line of Citations, now numbering more than 6,000, that have followed it into aviation history as the most popular business jets ever. Just a Way of Life Previously, Carr was the director of maintenance for the company. “My brother is now the director of Maintenance; I’m the chief pilot now,” Carr says. “So I fly them, I work on them, I own them. You know, it’s just a way of life. My son’s involved now. Started him on his 16th birthday and he still actually doesn’t have a single-engine rating. I mean, he soloed in a Seneca, and got his instrument in a Seneca. Then we type-rated him and he got his commercial on his 18th birthday in the Citation.” Flying for the Carrs is a family affair. CEO Carr has more than 18,000 flight hours himself, more than 7,000 in the Citation type. While his wife, Bonnie, is not involved in the business today, she is a multi-engine rated CFI, and was Vice Governor for the Southeast Section of the Ninety-Nines, and a regional rep for the Air and Space Museum. page 8 PLEASE SEE NEXT PAGE
All Models Except Mustang, ATA: 56-00 The company has 12 pilots on staff and about 30 part-time medical professionals. All three Carr brothers are pilots. Wayne Carr co-owns the company and airplanes with his brother Dana, who is the executive vice president and director of Operations. Their brother, Lester, is the director of Maintenance, and Wayne’s son, Aaron, is the chief financial officer and a co-pilot. When Air Trek was moving on from the piston twins it was flying it had a choice of jet aircraft. “We knew we had to move to a jet because of the customer base that we serve,” he says. “Everybody was running Learjets. We took a different route and went with the more fuel efficient, stage 3 Citation. It was slower, but it’s a great medical platform because the people that we’re transporting inter-facility don’t require that type of speed. “They just need cabin space for the medical team to work in and service the patient, be able to get in and out, and a nice, stable environment and comfortable ride. You don’t find many operating the older Learjets now.” Since 1973, cell phones have become a way of life, ATMs are ubiquitous, Motor Trend’s Car of the Year is a collectible. Carr and his family have gone on to build a thriving business and Air Trek’s Citation 500-0087 continues to rewrite the history of business jet reliability. 525, 525A, 550, S550, 560, 560XL and 650, ATA: 34-00 Universal Issues SL for Database Fail Messages Universal Avionics Systems Corporation has issued SL No. 2839 for a software anomaly that can indicate a FAIL message when loading the navigation database. A VHF NAVAID DATABASE FAIL CDU message will also be displayed when the database is loaded followed by automatically selecting it as the active database. The VHF NAVAID DATABASE FAIL CDU message may also display, following performance or company database loads. Operators should be aware these failure messages are due to an error in the software and is not an indication of corrupt data. If all the individual line entries show PASS during the database load process, the database is acceptable to use regardless of a FAIL message following a database load. The displayed FAIL message is a nuisance indication since the database has passed the necessary integrity checks. Operators experiencing the FAIL message after a database load should follow the Database Load Verification with FAIL Message Procedures on page two of the service letter. Questions, please contact: Team CJ 1-800-835-4090 hotline@cessna.textron.com page 9 Team Legacy 1-800-835-4090 hotline@cessna.textron.com Team Excel 316-517-1400 (Direct) 1-877-560-3960 (WATS) teamxl@cessna.textron.com www.citationservice.com
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