Charter operators and airlines
1,798 companies hold an FAA certificate to carry passengers or cargo for hire: a charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135), an airline certificate (Part 121), or both. Together they list 11,479 aircraft. Click a name for the certificate's aircraft, the company's base, its callsign and what is in the air right now. The 90 carriers the Department of Transportation has certificated for scheduled or charter service are marked with their authority.
| Operator | Certificate | Base | Callsign | Aircraft on the certificate | DOT authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Air Cargo, Inc. website Mountain Air Cargo is an express cargo carrier operating over 75 aircraft on feeder routes for FedEx across the eastern United States and Caribbean. | Parts 121 and 135 | Denver, NC | MTN Mountain | 51 | Interstate charter passenger, Foreign charter passenger |
| Wrangell Mountain Air INC website Wrangell Mountain Air operates flightseeing tours, scheduled air service, backcountry drop-offs, and charter flights in and around Wrangell-St. | Part 135 | Palmer, AK | 7 | ||
| Mountain Air Medical, LLC. | Part 135 | Palm City, FL * | 5 | ||
| Mountain Air Helicopters, Inc. | Part 135 | Dover, DE | 3 | ||
| Scenic Mountain Air, Inc website Scenic Mountain Air is a float plane charter operator based on Trail Lake in Moose Pass, Alaska. | Part 135 | Moose Pass, AK | 3 | ||
| Bald Mountain Air Service, Inc website Bald Mountain Air Service operates fly-in brown bear photo safari tours to Katmai National Park and provides specialized Arctic aviation services from bases in Homer, Anchorage, and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. | Part 135 | Homer, AK | 2 | ||
| Hawk Mountain Air LLC | Part 135 | Palmer, AK * | 2 | ||
| Sheep Mountain Air LLC | Part 135 | Sutton, AK | 2 | ||
| Bear Mountain Air LLC | Part 135 | Summerfield, NC * | 1 | ||
| Goat Mountain Air website | Part 135 | Girdwood, AK | 1 | ||
| Mountain Air Charter LLC website Mountain Air Charter operates a Citation CJ3 twin-engine jet based at Dallas Love Field. | Part 135 | Dallas, TX | 1 | ||
| Mountain Air Spray Company INC. website | Part 135 | Craig, CO | 1 |
Sources: the FAA's list of Part 135 and 121 certificate holders and the aircraft on each certificate (as of October 9, 2026), and the Department of Transportation's certificated air carriers list (as of October 9, 2026). The base is where the company registers its own aircraft, or the address the DOT lists; marked * when it is only where most of the aircraft on the certificate are registered, which for a management company can be scattered. A callsign marked "heard" was worked out from what the receiver network heard the certificate's aircraft broadcast in the last 30 days, not from a list. Contact people named in the sources are not shown, the site's policy at this time.