Tropical Airways
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Fleet size | 4 | ||||||
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Destinations | 6 | ||||||
Headquarters | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Another airline using the Tropical Airways name was operating stretched Super Douglas DC-8 jetliners nonstop between New York City JFK Airport and Cheddi Jagan International Airport serving Georgetown, Guyana in 1989.[1]
Services[]
As of February 2005, Tropical Airways operated the following services:
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien, Jérémie and Port-de-Paix.
- International scheduled destinations: Nassau, Bahamas and Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Accidents and incidents[]
- On August 24, 2003, a Tropical Airways Let L-410 Turbolet commuter turboprop airliner en route from Cap-Haïtien to Port-de-Paix crashed in a sugar cane field.[2] All 21 passengers died in the fiery crash. An official at Cap-Haïtien's airport said the 19-passenger aircraft departed with too many people aboard and too much baggage.[3] Witnesses on the ground say they saw smoke billowing from the plane and luggage falling out of the aircraft's rear door.
Fleet[]
According to Flight International magazine, the Tropical Airways fleet as of August 2006 consisted of the following aircraft:
- 4 Let L-410 UVP[4]
Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just three planes in the fleet:
- 1 DHC Dash 8
- 1 Cessna Grand Caravan.
- 1 Shorts SD 360-300
References[]
- ^ http://www.departedflights.com, Jan. 9, 1989 Official Airline Guide (OAG), New York JFK Airport flight schedules
- ^ "AirDisaster.Com Accident Photo: Tropical Airways Let 410 HH-TAD (2)". August 25, 2006. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/shipping-air-freight/628742-1.html#[bare URL]
- ^ Flight International, 3–9 October 2006
External links[]
- Tropical Airways Haiti
- Route map
- Data and fleet info[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- Defunct airlines of Haiti
- Airlines established in 1999
- Airlines disestablished in 2003
- Companies based in Port-au-Prince
- 1999 establishments in Haiti
- 2003 disestablishments in Haiti
- Haiti company stubs