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== Helicopter service == Trump Air operated a scheduled helicopter service between [[LaGuardia Airport]] and [[Downtown Manhattan Heliport|Wall Street Heliport]] to provide connections with Trump Shuttle flights at LaGuardia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/7d8912.htm|title=Trump Air β The Trump Shuttle Connection|website=www.timetableimages.com|access-date=2017-08-22}}</ref> Trump Air also operated between New York City and [[East Hampton Airport]] from 1989 to 1992, and between [[West 30th Street Heliport]] and Steeplechase Pier in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] to serve Trump's casinos. It used a combination of [[Sikorsky S-61]] and [[Boeing CH-47 Chinook|Boeing Chinook]] helicopters.<ref name=TrumpAirDailyRecord/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Rattiner|first=Dan|url=http://www.danspapers.com/2017/01/trumps-choppers-from-1989-92-trump-ran-a-hamptons-helicopter-service/|title=Trump's Choppers: From 1989β92 Trump Ran a Hamptons Helicopter Service|work=[[Dan's Papers]]|location=[[The Hamptons|Hamptons, Long Island, New York]]|language=en|date=January 13, 2017|access-date=2017-08-22|archive-date=November 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115021958/https://www.danspapers.com/2017/01/trumps-choppers-from-1989-92-trump-ran-a-hamptons-helicopter-service/}}</ref> It was established on March 22, 1988, with three Sikorsky S-61 helicopters, which could carry 24 passengers each, with service between the [[West 30th Street Heliport]] in Manhattan and Bader Field and the Steeplechase Pier in Atlantic City.<ref name=TrumpAirDailyRecord/> Fares were from $49β125, and travel time was 48 minutes.<ref name=TrumpAirDailyRecord/> One of the helicopters had already been operating for about a month.<ref name=TrumpAirDailyRecord/> Trump had acquired the helicopters, which had been Resorts International Air, as part of his 1988 deal with [[Merv Griffin#Business ventures|Merv Griffin]] following Griffin's takeover of [[Resorts International]] Inc.<ref name=TrumpAirDailyRecord/><ref name=NYT15041988>{{cite news |last=Stevenson |first=Richard W. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/15/business/griffin-wins-resorts-in-deal-with-trump.html |title=Griffin Wins Resorts in Deal with Trump |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 15, 1988 |access-date=November 14, 2020}}</ref><ref name=WP17091989>{{cite news |last=Mufson |first=Steven |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/09/17/the-wheel-of-fortune-that-went-awry/4932433d-c02b-437a-a7dd-46763ebf421e/ |title=The Wheel of Fortune that Went Awry |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=September 17, 1989 |access-date=November 14, 2020 }}</ref>
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