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FAA Air Carrier · Cert EBEA952T · Part 135

Certificated to carry what other carriers refuse.
Day or night.

AeroAcumen is a single-pilot, on-demand Part 135 air carrier at Albuquerque — moving time-critical medical isotopes, Class 7 radioactive materials, and high-value cargo direct across New Mexico and the Southwest, on the decay clock, with one accountable pilot from booking to landing.

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EBEA952T FAA Cert OpSpec A055 Will-Carry IATA DGR Hazmat US DOT Hazmat VFR Day & Night N55821 Piper Arrow II KAEG Albuquerque
Why air, why now

When the cargo is decaying, the schedule isn't yours to lose.

Medical isotopes lose value by the hour, and many carriers won't accept Class 7 at all — so a refused shipment or a missed connection isn't an inconvenience, it's a dose that never reaches a patient. A certificated regional carrier that flies direct, day or night, is the difference.

Technetium-99m
~6 hr half-life

Half-life of the most common diagnostic isotope. Every transit hour erodes the usable dose.

Fluorine-18 · PET
~110 min half-life

Decays faster still — direct, single-leg routing isn't a preference, it's a requirement.

Carriers that refuse Class 7
Most

Many passenger airlines and courier networks won't touch radioactive cargo. We're certificated to carry it.

Who we serve

Built around three kinds of shipper.

AeroAcumen isn't a generic charter service with a hazmat add-on. The operation is shaped around the people who actually need a small, certificated, single-custody aircraft on short notice.

Flagship

Medical Isotopes & Nuclear Medicine

Radiopharmacies, isotope distributors, and imaging & research programs that live and die by the decay clock.

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Compliance-critical

Labs, Industrial Radiography & Class 7 Shippers

National labs, industrial radiography (NDT) source shippers, and the WIPP-adjacent waste corridor needing documented, single-custody Class 7 lift.

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On-demand

Time-Critical Cargo

Parts-on-ground, lab samples, documents, and high-value freight that can't wait for a scheduled connection.

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Charter

Passengers

Direct charter for two adults with luggage, or three with minimal baggage — into the regional fields the airlines skip.

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Segment 01 · Medical Isotopes
FLAGSHIP SEGMENT

Your isotopes, delivered before they decay — day or night.

Short half-lives leave no slack, and many carriers refuse Class 7 outright. When a scheduled flight slips, a courier declines the load, or a regional radiopharmacy's normal distribution can't hit the clock, the dose degrades and the procedure is in jeopardy. AeroAcumen is certificated to carry radioactive material and flies it direct, on your timeline — including expedited and backup runs, after-hours and overnight.

BUYERS: radiopharmacies & PET dose distributors · therapeutic / theranostic isotope producers · hospital nuclear-medicine · university PET & brain-imaging research programs

An operator who understands the clock from the customer's side — and the authorizations to back it up.

  • Class 7 will-carry — radioactive materials, medical isotopes, and tracers under FAA OpSpec A055
  • Day & night — VFR day and night for decay-sensitive and after-hours dispatch
  • Expedited & backup lanes — the air option when a producer's routine distribution can't make the window
  • Direct, single-leg routing — point-to-point into regional fields, no layovers
  • Exclusive use, single custody — your shipment is the only shipment on board
  • IATA DGR & US DOT — acceptance, marking, and shipping papers handled to standard
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Segment 02 · Labs, Industrial Radiography & Class 7

Class 7 radioactive air transport for the loads others won't carry.

Sealed sources, laboratory shipments, and industrial radiography (NDT) cameras demand compliant handling and an unbroken chain of custody — not a load tossed onto a multi-stop network. AeroAcumen offers exclusive-use flights with documented acceptance procedures and a single accountable operator who signs for the cargo and flies it.

BUYERS: national laboratories · industrial radiography / NDT source shippers (Ir-192, Se-75) · WIPP-adjacent waste corridor · with ground hazmat carriers as overflow partners

Documented, secure, single-custody transport built to the federal hazmat framework.

  • Chain of custody — exclusive-use, single-custody flights end to end
  • 49 CFR 172 / 175 — acceptance, marking, and shipping-paper procedures
  • Sealed sources & NDT — industrial radiography cameras and lab materials handled to standard
  • Owner-operator accountability — one named PIC responsible for the shipment
  • Channel & overflow — a dedicated air leg when a ground carrier needs distance covered fast
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Segment 03 · Time-Critical Cargo

Direct, on-demand cargo lift across New Mexico and the Southwest.

Airline schedules don't bend, and the regional fields you need are often the ones they skip. AeroAcumen flies same-day, point-to-point, into the smaller airports — one operator from the phone call to the ramp, with no hand-offs along the way.

BUYERS: parts-on-ground & AOG · clinical & lab samples · documents & high-value freight

A right-sized aircraft for loads too small or too urgent for the big networks.

  • Same-day dispatch — on-demand, on your schedule
  • Direct routing — point-to-point into regional and GA fields
  • Single point of contact — booking to landing, one operator
  • Right-sized economics — single-engine cost for small-payload missions
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Segment 04 · Passengers

Direct charter to the airports the airlines skip.

When the trip is regional and the timetable doesn't fit, scheduled air means connections, layovers, and a day lost. AeroAcumen flies you point-to-point on your schedule — two adults with luggage, or three with minimal baggage — landing closer to where you actually need to be.

BUYERS: business & professional travelers · lab and clinical staff · crews and small groups moving between regional sites

A personal, direct alternative to a connecting itinerary.

  • Two adults with luggage — or three with minimal baggage
  • Direct, single-leg routing — into regional and GA fields
  • One operator, start to finish — booking to landing, no hand-offs
  • Pre-flight briefing — passenger and baggage safety to Part 135 standard
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Why AeroAcumen

The acumen is in the operation.

Every flight runs on a documented Part 135 framework — the same rigor a national carrier answers to, applied at the scale of a single, personally accountable operator. The full credential stack, in one place:

FAA Cert EBEA952T OpSpec A055 will-carry hazmat Class 7 radioactive IATA DGR US DOT hazmat VFR day & night §135.79 flight following
01

Certificated air carrier

Operating under FAA Air Carrier Certificate EBEA952T and current operations specifications — not a private aircraft offered informally for hire.

02

Will-carry hazmat program

A written program under OpSpec A055, aligned to IATA DGR and US DOT, governs acceptance, shipping papers, marking, and loading of dangerous goods.

03

Class 7 authorization

Certificated specifically for radioactive materials — the niche most carriers decline — across New Mexico's lab and medical-isotope corridor.

04

Single-PIC accountability

The owner-operator is your pilot, your dispatcher, and your point of contact. No hand-offs, no diffusion of responsibility for your shipment.

05

Active flight following

Every flight is monitored end-to-end under §135.79, with satellite tracking beyond ground-station coverage.

06

Documented compliance

Maintenance, weight & balance, minimum-equipment, drug & alcohol, and risk-assessment records kept FAA-ready for every flight.

General Manager · Pilot-in-Command
Erik Erhardt
Owner-operator, AeroAcumen LLC
Seven pilot ratings
Comm · Single-Engine Land Comm · Multi-Engine Land Comm · Single-Engine Sea Comm · Multi-Engine Sea Comm · Glider Instrument · Airplane Flight Instructor
The operator

A small carrier, run to a large carrier's standard.

The same person who answers your call plans the flight, assesses the risk, accepts and loads the cargo, and flies the leg. That continuity is AeroAcumen's biggest advantage — and the reason its compliance and safety documentation is built to stand up to FAA scrutiny on any given day.

Breadth in the cockpit backs it up: commercial ratings across single- and multi-engine, land and sea, plus a commercial glider rating, an instrument rating, and flight-instructor credentials — a combination of seven distinct ratings earned over years of disciplined flying.

Why AeroAcumen exists

Alzheimer's touches nearly every family. It took my stepmother young — and it pulled me into brain-imaging research, first as a postdoctoral fellow and now as a university professor. That work runs on PET tracers and medical isotopes that decay in hours and cost a fortune to move, which is exactly where the supply chain strains.

AeroAcumen started to ease that strain: to give New Mexico's isotope and research community — including the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center — a certificated regional carrier that understands the decay clock and the cost pressure from the inside. I rely on these scans and these isotopes in my own work, so I know precisely why your deadline and your budget matter.

Where we fly

New Mexico, and the Southwest corridor within reach.

From our Albuquerque base we serve New Mexico and the surrounding isotope and lab corridor — out to the producer and pharmacy hubs of the Southwest and Intermountain West, including the airports the airlines don't, on direct point-to-point routes you choose.

Representative destinations — many reachable on a single direct leg, the farthest on a single stop. Final routing is mission- and range-dependent and quoted per request. Ask about a city not listed here.

KAEG Albuquerque · Base KSAF Santa Fe KLAM Los Alamos KSKX Taos KFMN Farmington KGUP Gallup KROW Roswell KLRU Las Cruces KCNM Carlsbad KHOB Hobbs KELP El Paso, TX KAMA Amarillo, TX KLBB Lubbock, TX KPHX Phoenix, AZ KDRO Durango, CO KAPA Denver, CO KSLC Salt Lake City, UT KOKC Oklahoma City, OK

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The aircraft

A Piper Arrow II, maintained and flown to carry your load.

N55821 is a retractable-gear, constant-speed Piper PA-28R-200 Arrow II — a proven cross-country airframe that puts regional destinations within a single direct leg, without the cost structure of a turbine charter.

Operating profile: single-pilot, VFR day and night. Scheduling is weather- and daylight-aware, and you'll always get an honest go/no-go rather than a pushed, marginal flight.

N55821 PA-28R-200 · ARROW II
Airframe & powerplant
EngineLycoming IO-360-C1C
Power200 HP
PropellerHartzell 3-blade constant-speed
Landing gearRetractable
Seating4 (1 crew + 3 pax)
Cruise~140 KTAS (161 mph)
Range~600 mi · 4 hr (1 hr fuel reserve)
OperationPart 135 · VFR Day & Night
Payload & cargo capability
Useful load — cargo config380 lb (172 kg)
Useful load — passenger config350 lb (159 kg)
Baggage capacity200 lb (90 kg)
Standard volume24 ft³ (0.68 m³)
Max volume — seats removed44 ft³ (1.25 m³)
Baggage door20" × 22"
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Tell us what you need to move.

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Base
Albuquerque Double Eagle II Airport (KAEG)

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