WILMINGTON, Ohio – Air Transport Services Group, Inc. announced that its leasing subsidiary, Cargo Aircraft Management, Inc., has completed a lease agreement with Amerijet International, Inc. for a second efficient, Boeing 767 medium wide body freighter.

Under the seven-year agreement, Amerijet will dry-lease its second Boeing 767-232 special freighter from CAM. CAM delivered the first leased freighter to Amerijet in March 2010. Amerijet also holds options to lease three additional 767 freighters from CAM.

CAM is providing turnkey assistance to Amerijet as the leased aircraft enter its operating fleet. CAM will provide access to engine maintenance for Amerijet via CAM’s contract with Delta TechOps, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Inc. CAM arranged Boeing 767 training for Amerijet pilots through ABX Air, which also provided maintenance manuals and technical assistance to help Amerijet obtain 767 operating certification. Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services, another ATSG subsidiary, will provide line and heavy maintenance services, component exchange services and engineering services to Amerijet as necessary to support its daily aircraft operations.

“Leasing the 767 special freighter fits with our growth strategy and the efficiencies we get with this aircraft will improve profitability,” noted Amerijet President Dave Bassett. “Leasing from CAM gives us access to the ATSG family of companies and they do an excellent job of bundling their services to streamline getting this aircraft into revenue service much quicker.”

“With the placement of this aircraft we now have 15, or half of our available Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, under long-term leases with customers external to the ATSG group. The rest are deployed in ACMI service by one of the ATSG-owned airlines. We continue to see demand from leading cargo airlines and other operators seeking high quality, medium wide body aircraft,” ATSG CEO and President Joe Hete said. “The efficiencies, services and the flexibility that the ATSG family of companies offers have made our fleet of 767s very attractive to the leading cargo airlines.”

Amerijet, which operates Boeing 727-200 and Boeing 767-200 aircraft from its primary hub at Miami International Airport and provides airfreight services from Miami and throughout Central America, South America and the Caribbean, has been a long-term ACMI customer of ABX Air, an ATSG cargo airline. Its main base is Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

ATSG’s relationship with Amerijet has grown from one 767 freighter provided on an ACMI basis through ABX Air, to two 767s dry leased by CAM for full operation by Amerijet, with maintenance and support services provided through ATSG subsidiaries.