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Ferry flying

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20: 73:, and may carry revenue freight or passengers as local aviation regulations and airline policies allow. Such flights may be necessary following a major weather event or other similar disruption which causes multiple cancellations across an airline's network resulting in many aircraft and crew being out of position for normal operations; the 57:
is the flying of aircraft for the purpose of returning the aircraft to base, delivering it to a customer, moving it from one base of operations to another, or moving it to or from a maintenance facility that includes
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A commercial airliner may need to be moved from one airport to another to satisfy the next day's timetable or facilitate routine maintenance. This is commonly known as a
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flew single- and multi-engine planes 340 times across both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, breaking several records in the process.
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civil aircraft from its present location to a maintenance facility to be inspected, repaired and returned to an airworthy state.
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A ferry permit is a written authorization issued by a
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or the mass evacuation of US airspace following the
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Canadian Forces
CH-135 Twin Huey
Base Rescue Goose Bay
CFB Winnipeg
Depot Level Inspection and Repair
Bristol Aerospace
maintenance, repair, and operations
2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
9/11 attacks
National Airworthiness Authority
airworthy
Louise Sacchi
Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol
Lettice Curtis
Maureen Dunlop de Popp
Mary Ellis
Luis Fontés
Joan Hughes
Amy Johnson
Jim Mollison
Robert Neale
Robert Olds
Jarvis Offutt
Jadwiga Piłsudska
C. W. A. Scott
Diana Barnato Walker
Margrit Waltz
Air Transport Auxiliary
Air Transport Command

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