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|airline=Griffing Flying Service, Inc. |logo=Griffing Flying Service banner.jpg |IATA=none |ICAO=none |callsign=none |commenced=1937 |headquarters=Port Clinton, Ohio |hubs={{nowrap|Erie-Ottawa International Airport}} |website=www.flygriffing.com }} Griffing Flying Service, Inc. is a privately owned aviation company based in Port Clinton, Ohio. It operates on-demand passenger flights to islands in Lake Erie, as well as air charter services to the U.S., Canada, and The Bahamas. The company also provides flight training, aerial tours and aircraft maintenance. Griffing Flying Service is a family-operated business. Founded in 1937 by Harry Thomas Griffing, a former truck driver,[1] by 2016 it was headed by Harry Thomas Griffing Jr., with Harry Thomas Griffing III as its chief pilot. The latter is the third generation of pilots in the family.[2] After seven years of negotiations, Griffing took over a rival, Island Airlines, in 1992. The deal included the rights to delivery agreements with the US Postal Service and United Parcel Service.[2] It had 18 employees and a fleet of eight aircraft in 2012. It then operated the {{convert|133|acre|ha}} Griffing Sandusky Airport in Sandusky, Ohio but was preparing gradually to move its base to Erie-Ottawa Regional Airport in Ottawa County, where it had in any case operated during the winter since 2008.[3] The move was completed by 2013.[2] The Sandusky site closed on December 31, 2013. All the hangars and the entrance was demolished April 2016. The airport was replaced by Cedar Point Sports Center. In 2016, the company was named Business of the Year by the Ottawa County Improvement Corporation.[4] FleetGriffing Flying Service flies a fleet of small propeller-driven airplanes including:[5]
References1. ^{{cite news |work=Erie-Ottawa International Airport Newsletter |date=March 2015 |url=http://www.portclintonairport.com/images/EOIA_March_2015.pdf |title=Griffing Flying Service}} {{Airlines of the United States}}2. ^{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19920924&id=aagkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UAMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2782,6409455&hl=en |title=Sandusky firm buys Erie Islands air link |work=Toledo Blade |date=September 24, 1992 |first=John |last=Lis |accessdate=2016-07-23}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Griffing moves flying business to Ottawa County |first=Richard |last=Payerchin |work=The Morning Journal News |date=June 29, 2012 |url=http://www.morningjournal.com/article/MJ/20120629/NEWS/306299957 |accessdate=2016-07-23}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite news |title=Griffing Flying Service takes OCIC's "Business of Year" |first=Jessica |last=Denton |date=March 10, 2016 |url=http://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/story/news/local/2016/03/10/griffing-flying-service-takes-ocics-business-year/81487906/ |work=Port Clinton News Herald |accessdate=2016-07-23}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.flygriffing.com/fleet |title=Aircraft Fleet |author= |date= |website=Griffing Flying Service |publisher=Griffing Flying Service |access-date=2017-05-31}} 4 : Airlines of the United States|Transportation in Ottawa County, Ohio|Privately held companies based in Ohio|1937 establishments in Ohio |
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