Atlantic Aviation brings sustainable fuel to Aspen-Pitkin County Airport

Posted April 26, 2021

Earth Day seemed like a fitting time for Atlantic Aviation — which services the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport — to officially bring sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, to the Roaring Fork Valley.

Bringing the fuel, however, presented its own challenge, at least conceptually. After all, what’s the point of launching a sustainability initiative if transporting the carbon reducing SAF was going to create its own oversized carbon footprint?

It was a top-of-mind question for stakeholders.

“The Aspen FBO has been working on getting SAF for more than one and a half years,” Maureen Poschman, of Promo Communications, said via email. “It is in hot demand — and as was mentioned, it eventually needed to be trucked here from California.

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Left to right: Jonathan Jones, Jackie Francis and Kelly McNicholas Kury pose together for a photo op Thursday in front of an Atlantic Aviation air tank drain carrying sustainable aviation fuel, known as SAF.

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