EXPERIENCE Major Energy Company chartered a flight to prevent a power plant shut down. Tailwind chartered a Lear 25 to transport electronic parts and equipment from Pittsburg to Monterrey, California “Just-In-Time” to meet the needs of the power plant. A second flight using a Falcon 20 went from Houston to Bangor Maine for another power plant emergency. Nightly charter flights over several months using a Cessna-310 to make nightly runs to banks from Chicago to Indianapolis. Falcon 20 chartered by a Freight Forwarder to move 5,000 pounds of TV production equipment from Great Falls to Boston to meet scheduling deadlines for a reality TV production. Sensitive cargo needed specialized handling! An AN-12 cargo aircraft was used from Miami to the Bahamas to carry 4 spools of cable for a telecommunication company. Just-In-Time – A chartered Falcon takes auto parts from El Paso to Chicago to meet a scheduled International Flight going to the United Kingdom. Tailwind can arrange charter to commercial flights to meet our customers’ needs. Forwarding company, with extremely time sensitive cargo, charters a flight from El Paso to the United Kingdom taking auto parts necessary to keep an assembly plant running. Tailwind arranged four (4) separate runs using two (2) aircraft each time to meet this need. Just In Time - Air Conditioning parts were rushed from Chicago to Houston to prevent an assembly line shut down requiring two cargo aircraft, a Falcon 20 and a Metro. A DC-9 was the aircraft needed to transport a diesel engine from Houston, Texas to Oakland, California, again “Just In Time”. A DC-9 transported auto parts from Juarez, Mexico to Knoxville, Tennessee to meet urgent replacement needs for an aircraft with mechanical difficulties. Tailwind is always available to airlines to meet their AOG needs! Two businessmen need to get home in rainy weather! A Mitsubishi Diamond Jet was chartered when a scheduled Airline’s flight was cancelled and two passengers urgently needed to return home. The call came to Tailwind at 1:30 p.m. and the passengers were wheels-up at 3:30 p.m. going from Addison Airport in Dallas to Macon, Georgia and on to Charleston, South Carolina. A passenger airline, with an urgent need, called Tailwind to transport an escape slide. The one originally onboard had been accidentally deployed, and passengers departing from Denver aboard a 737 aircraft were grounded until the new escape slide arrived. The trip was done in extreme weather conditions and accomplished in record time using a Learjet. Another AOG need met! United Nations peacekeeping soldiers from Guatemala were transported aboard a 757 into the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tailwind representatives were on site to assure that all went well with this charter operation. Prior to departure, soldiers were given boarding passes, specialized cargo was loaded onto the aircraft and a special ceremony, attended by family members, was held as the Guatemalan soldiers became U.N. Peacekeepers. See pictures of this operation in the Charters section. School test material must arrive in order to meet Federal standards! Four separate flights using Lear aircraft, made multiple drop-offs of test material to schools in various cities in Illinois. Production difficulties lead to deadline issues; therefore, chartered aircraft were needed to get the testing material to the schools so they could meet the Federal standards of ISAT – the “No Child Left Behind” program. Go to our Charter section to view pictures of some of Tailwind’s operations. Close Window Return to Tailwind's Main Page