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FBO Profile Colville Aviation

Colville Aviation provides all fueling services at Deadhorse, supplying jet-A and avgas for airline, GA and military aircraft, as well as these Everts DC-6 freighters.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

June 3, 2014

It’s not every airport that lists wandering herds of caribou as one of its operational hazards, but then again, not every airport is located 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle like the evocatively named Deadhorse Airport in Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska’s Northern shore. In operation since 1970 to provide service to the largest oil field in North America, the airport–believed to have been named for an old trucking company rather than an equine carcass–has for the last two decades had its aviation fuel service provided by Colville Inc. Colville, in business since the 1950s, offers a variety of services to the local community, including operating the general store and post office as well as providing various fuels to the numerous oil rigs and hauling away their garbage. Two years ago the company established Colville Aviation as the airport’s sole FBO in a newly constructed building.

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