Precision Valley Aviation, Inc,(RP)
A Thumbnail Sketch, October 2018
by Tom Hildreth
Headquartered at Hartness State Airport in North Springfield, Vermont, Precision Valley Aviation, Inc. took its name from the Machine Tool industry that had developed in the Black River Valley a hundred years
earlier. The airline's early operation was largely devoted to Beech D.18 freight runs in support of the industry. By the late 1970s the decline of the machine tool industry found Precision operating the Beech 99
and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter as a passenger feeder line for the large airports at Boston and New York. | ||||||||
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Beech 18 N62V at Boston-Logan, June 1975. FAA website shows a Beech E18S-9700 (s/n} BA-279 N62V registered by Air Cargo, Mcallen TX, 22Oct82-25Jan83 exported to Mexico. |
Beech 99 N52RP of Precision Airlines at Boston's Logan airport. |
Dornier Do228 of Precision AL/Eastern Express at Manchester, NH (KMHT) on 24 September 1988 |
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Precision Beech E.18s N390V at Hartness Airport, N. SPringfield, VT on 7 October 1980. |
Precision Piper PA-31 Navajo at Rutland, Vermont on 9 October 1980. |
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter of Precision Airlines N16RP at Lebanon, NH 6 April 1984. |
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