Longtail Aviation
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| Founded | 1999 | ||||||
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| Hubs | L.F. Wade International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 6 | ||||||
| Headquarters | St. George's, Bermuda | ||||||
| Website | https://www.longtailaviation.com | ||||||
Longtail Aviation is a charter airline based in St. George's, Bermuda and was formed in August 1999.
Fleet[]
The fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of 22 April 2011):[1]
- 2 Dassault Falcon 900B
- 1 Cessna Citation S/II
- 1 Beech King Air 350
- 1 Beech King Air 200
- 1 Boeing 737-700BBJ (as of August 2019)[2]
- 2 Boeing 747-400F (as of December 2020)[3]
Incidents and accidents[]
- On 20 February 2021, a Longtail Boeing 747-412BCF jet cargoliner, registration VQ-BWT, operating as flight 6T5504/LGT5504, had an engine failure above the village of Meerssen, shortly after taking off from Maastricht Aachen Airport on the way to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Dropped turbine blades from the exploded Pratt & Whitney PW4056 jet engine lightly injured two persons on the ground. The plane was able to land safely at Liège Airport.[4][5][6][7][8]
References[]
- ^ "Fleet". Longtail Aviation (in American English). Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "Global Airline Guide 2019 (Part One)". Airliner World (October 2019): 5.
- ^ "Einzige Airline der Bermudas holt sich 747" (in German). Zürich, Switzerland: aeroTELEGRAPH. 2020-06-19.
- ^ "Live Flight Tracker: Real-Time Flight Tracker Map". Flight history for aircraft : VQ-BWT. Flightradar24. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "Boeing verliest stukken metaal bij Maastricht, twee lichtgewonden". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-02-20.
- ^ "Vliegtuig verliest metaaldelen boven Meersen". 1Limburg (in Dutch). 2021-02-20. Retrieved 2021-02-20. [debris fell on an elderly woman. She was slightly injured and was taken to hospital for an examination as a precaution. A child who picked up a piece of the debris was also slightly injured]
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "LONGTAIL 747 Rains Engine Parts in Dutch Town!". Mentour Pilot. 2021-02-20.
- ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 248036". Aviation Safety Network (published 2021-02-21). 2021-02-20. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
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