HANAPEPE — Ken D’Attilio’s Pacific Aviation International, Inc., doing business as Inter-Island Helicopters, is being evicted from its base of operations along Kaumuali’i Highway here. The company has until midnight Thursday, Aug. 17, to totally vacate the property he had
HANAPEPE — Ken D’Attilio’s Pacific Aviation International, Inc., doing
business as Inter-Island Helicopters, is being evicted from its base of
operations along Kaumuali’i Highway here.
The company has until midnight
Thursday, Aug. 17, to totally vacate the property he had leased from the state
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, according to an order from District Court
Judge Clifford Nakea signed and filed last week.
But don’t think for a
minute that being evicted from its office and hangar location means the end of
Inter-Island Helicopters.
The company has valid permits allowing it to park
its helicopters overnight at Burns Field (Port Allen Airport), and D’Attilio is
fairly confident the state Department of Transportation Airports Division will
get county permits necessary to expand the airstrip before his eviction
date.
“I can move the hangar in 30 days,” and intends to do so, hopefully
to Burns Field, he told The Garden Island.
The court order calls for the
company’s immediate eviction from the DHHL property before the eviction date in
the event that any of several conditions are breached.
Some of the
conditions are that the company only fly from the property in cases of
emergency, that it name the DHHL as an additional insured party on the
company’s insurance policies, and that it hold the state harmless from lawsuits
and other claims.
