Air Bissau
Air Bissau | |
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IATA code : | Y Z |
ICAO code : | GBU |
Call sign : | TRANSBISSAU |
Founding: | 1951 (as TAGP) |
Operation stopped: | 1998 |
Seat: | Guinea-Bissau |
Home airport : | Osvaldo Vieira International Airport |
Fleet size: | 1 |
Aims: | national |
Air Bissau ceased operations in 1998. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
Air Bissau was an airline from Guinea-Bissau that ceased operations in 1998. The state-owned company emerged from Transportes Aéreos da Guiné Portuguesesa (TAGP) , which was founded in 1951 .
history
Air Bissau's origins lie in the Portuguese company Transportes Aéreos da Guiné Portuguesesa (TAGP) , which was founded in 1951 and carried out air services on behalf of the state in what was then the colony of Portuguese Guinea . In 1963 TAGP used aircraft of the types Cessna 170 , De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide , De Havilland DH.114 Heron and Dornier 27 within the colony area as well as to Dakar , Praia and Ilha do Sal .
After the colony of Portuguese Guinea gained its independence in 1974, the Portuguese company became the property of the newly established Republic of Guinea-Bissau and was named Transportes Aéreos da Guiné-Bissau (TAGB) . Flight operations were initially suspended and resumed in 1975 with Cessna 182 , Cessna 206 and Dornier 27 small aircraft .
In 1977 the state enterprise was named Linhas Aéreas da Guiné-Bissau ( LIA ). In the early 1980s, the company used aircraft of the types Hawker Siddeley HS.748 , Douglas DC-3 , Dornier 27 and Dornier 28 on national routes as well as in international scheduled services to Conakry , Dakar and Praia. In 1988, Linhas Aéreas da Guiné-Bissau temporarily stopped flight operations.
After restructuring, the company was renamed Transportes Aéreos da Guiné-Bissau ( TAGB ) again in 1988 . At the same time, the company concluded a cooperation agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ), for which three Fokker F-27s were subsequently operated. In 1989 the company leased a Boeing 727-200 from the French airline Europe Aero Service ( EAS ). This was used under the new company name Air Bissau on scheduled flights to Lisbon and Paris . From the mid-1990s, Air Bissau only operated national flights. In 1996 the company put its last Hawker Siddeley HS.748 out of service and instead used a leased Embraer EMB 110 from the French Air Toulouse International . The state company was dissolved in 1998.
Further use of the name
The government of Guinea-Bissau planned to set up a new local airline called Air Bissau in 2014 , but did not implement it. At the same time, EuroAtlantic Airways was commissioned to operate international flights between Bissau and Lisbon from November 2014 .
fleet
TAGP used the following types of aircraft:
After being taken over by the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, the company began using the following types from 1975:
- Antonov An-24
- Antonov An-26
- Boeing 727 (leased from EAS)
- Boeing 737 (leased from EAS)
- Cessna 182
- Cessna 206
- Douglas DC-3
- Dornier 27
- Dornier 28th
- Embraer EMB 110 (leased from Air Toulouse International)
- Fokker F-27
- Hawker Siddeley HS.748
Incidents
Air Bissau recorded two fatal incidents in its history:
- On August 15, 1991, a Fokker F-27 had an accident en route from Kano Airport ( Nigeria ) to Bamako Airport ( Mali ) while approaching Bamako. The three Palestinian crew members were killed.
- On April 7, 1992, an Antonov An-24 was forced to land in the desert by a sandstorm en route from Khartoum Airport ( Sudan ) to Tunis Airport ( Tunisia ). The three crew members and three of the 13 passengers were killed, one of the survivors was the Palestinian freedom fighter Yasser Arafat .
See also
Web links
- Photos of Air Bissau on Airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Flight International, April 11, 1963
- ^ Aero, issue 217, year 1987
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 76
- ^ Flight international, April 2, 1983
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 88/89
- ^ Flight International, September 17, 1991
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 89/90
- ^ Flight International, March 30, 1993
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 96/97
- ↑ Ch-aviation : Guinea Bissau in hunt for partners for planned national carrier (English), accessed on November 21, 2014
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)