SkyRoads Aviation

Skyroads Aviation is a Part 135 air carrier headquartered at Centennial Airport in the Denver area, with an operations office at Colorado Springs Airport. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Manifest and flies Pilatus PC 12 single engine turboprops, which seat up to eight passengers and can be set up for business, family, medical or equipment transport.

Its best known work is scheduled flights for specialty physicians. Doctors in fields such as pulmonology, oncology and cardiology fly from large regional hospitals to Critical Access Hospitals in rural Colorado and Kansas on schedules built around each hospital, bringing specialist care to towns hours from the nearest city. The company notes that rural areas have far fewer specialists per resident than cities.

It also offers on demand private charter, flying from regional airports close to a passenger's destination. The PC 12 suits Colorado well: it handles short runways and high altitude airports such as Aspen, Telluride and the mountain towns of the Western Slope.

The company says its captains hold airline transport pilot certificates with more than 3,000 hours, and its first officers more than 1,000 hours, with experience focused on mountain terrain, short runways and high altitude flying.