Tropical Airways

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Tropical Airways
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IATA ICAO Callsign
M7TBG
Fleet size4
Destinations6
Headquarters Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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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:

Accidents and incidents

Fleet

According to Flight International magazine, the Tropical Airways fleet as of August 2006 consisted of the following aircraft:

Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just three planes in the fleet:

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References

  1. http://www.departedflights.com, Jan. 9, 1989 Official Airline Guide (OAG), New York JFK Airport flight schedules
  2. "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)
  3. "Tropical Airways aircraft was allegedly overloaded before crash. | Operations > Shipping from AllBusiness.com". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
  4. Flight International, 3–9 October 2006