Aero Commuter
DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 N7670
(c/n 187)
Aero Commuter was formed at Long Beach
Municipal Airport in December of 1967. It provided
service to "The Airport in the Sky" on Catalina Island from Burbank,
Long Beach, Los Angeles and
Fullerton, more of less picking up where Avalon Air Transport/Catalina
Airlines had left off. The little
airline expanded fairly rapidly in
1968 extending its service to Bakersfield, Palmdale and Apple Valley
in
the north to Santa Ana, Oceanside and San Diego in the south. In
1969 it merged with Skymark,
Cable Commuter and the original Golden West Airlines to form a newly
incorporated Golden West
Airlines. This Twin Otter
was absorbed into the Golden West
fleet and was sold in 1972 to Territory
Airlines in New Guinea as
VH-GKR, three years later
becoming P2-GKR when that nation received
its own identification
markings.