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

Dedicated, exclusive-use Class 7 air transport for radiopharmacies, isotope producers, and nuclear-medicine and research programs. Flown on the isotope's schedule rather than a freight network's.

FLAGSHIP segment OpSpec A055 Class 7 will-carry IATA DGR & US DOT VFR day & night

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Why AeroAcumen

Certificated to carry what most carriers refuse.

Class 7 radioactive material is exactly the cargo passenger airlines and courier networks turn away. We are authorized for it, and the whole operation is arranged around the decay clock.

Genuine Class 7 authority

Will-carry hazmat under OpSpec A055, including Class 7 radioactive — a capability few small carriers hold.

We fly when the dose is ready

Departure is set by your production and calibration schedule, not a published timetable. Day or night, after hours, weekends.

Direct, single-leg routing

Point-to-point into regional fields — no hub, no sort facility, no connection to miss. Every hour saved is usable activity.

Right-sized economics

Built to make dedicated Class 7 lift affordable for small urgent payloads. The founder built this carrier to solve his own isotope-cost problem.

The problem

Every transit hour is dose you can't get back.

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. Fluorine‑18 loses half its activity in under two hours; technetium‑99m in about six. A missed connection on cargo like this is not a delay, it is a loss, and the arithmetic is what the whole operation is built around.

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

What you get

An operator who understands the clock from your side.

Capability

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 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

Compliance on every run

Will-carry hazmat acceptance checklist — Shipper's Declaration, shipping papers, and Emergency Response Guidebook aboard
Acceptance, marking and loading documented to IATA DGR and 49 CFR Parts 172 / 175
Package category, transport index and surface readings verified at acceptance
Documented pre-flight go/no-go before every departure

Regulatory basis

The framework behind the authority.

Radiopharmacy quality managers ask for specifics. These are ours.

Instrument	Citation	What it covers
Air carrier certificate	14 CFR Part 135	On-demand operations under certificate EBEA952T
Will-carry hazardous materials	OpSpec A055	Authorization to accept and transport hazardous materials including Class 7 radioactive
Hazmat acceptance & documentation	49 CFR 172	Shipping papers, marking, labeling, placarding, emergency response information
Carriage by aircraft	49 CFR 175	Loading, stowage, separation distances, notification to pilot-in-command
Class 7 packages & limits	49 CFR 173.401–.478	Excepted, Type A and Type B packages; activity limits, transport index, contamination limits
International framework	IATA DGR	Dangerous Goods Regulations applied to acceptance and checklist procedures
Company hazmat registration	49 CFR 107 Subpart G	US DOT / PHMSA registration 071426550032I

Acceptance is limited to materials and quantities within our current will-carry authorization. If a shipment falls outside it, we will tell you at the quote stage rather than at the ramp.

Browse the medical radioisotope reference → — 54 isotopes with half-lives, emissions, modality, clinical use and transport notes.

Honest limits

What a single VFR aircraft can and can't promise.

VFR day and night. Weather can delay or cancel a launch. We give an honest go/no-go rather than pushing a marginal flight.
One aircraft, one pilot. Roughly 380 lb of cargo and about 600 miles per leg. If we are already committed, we will say so immediately.
Cost, not speed, is the pitch. For most lanes this is a more affordable dedicated option — not a faster one than an existing dedicated courier.

Need an isotope shipment moved?

Tell us the isotope, the route and the window — we'll confirm acceptance and quote it.

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