Transportes Aéreos de Timor

Transportes Aéreos de Timor
IATA code :	without
ICAO code :	RT
Call sign :	unknown
Founding:	1939
Operation stopped:	1975
Seat:	Dili
Home airport :	Baucau Airport
Fleet size:	1
Aims:	Timor, Australia
Transportes Aéreos de Timor ceased operations in 1975. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

The Transportes Aéreos de Timor (TAT) was an airline of the Portuguese Timor colony based in Dili , which flew between 1954 and 1975.

history

The TAT hall at Dili Airport in colonial times

TAT was founded as the national airline in July 1939, several years before Transportes Aéreos Portugueses , the national airline of the mother country. Their home airport was Baucau Airport . It served connections within the colony and to neighboring areas. In 1967 she flew between Baucau and Oecusse and between Baucau and Darwin ( Australia ) with two De Havilland DH.104 Dove . In 1969 the TAT flew to six destinations in Timor: Atauro , Baucau, Dili, Maliana , Manatuto , Oecusse and Suai . Once a week a chartered Fokker F-27 of Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) flew the Darwin – Baucau route. Now the TAT had three oysters in addition to their two doves . From June 1973, the Indonesian Kupang in West Timor was also served twice a week with two eight-seat, twin-engine Hawker Siddeley .

Incidents

• On January 26, 1960, a De Havilland DH.114 Heron 2D ( aircraft registration CR-TAI ) crashed on the flight from Darwin to Baucau 37 minutes after take-off northwest of Bathurst Island in the Timor Sea . All 9 occupants, 2 crew members and 7 passengers were killed. It is believed that the pilot had difficulties with poor visibility, for which he had not been trained.

Trivia

The DH.104 “Manatuto” CR-TAG, named after the East Timorese city ​​of Manatuto, was used in 1975 to escape the Indonesian invasion and is now in the Aviation Heritage Museum in Darwin.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Asia)
• Former Airlines List (Europe)
• List of airlines in East Timor

Web links

Commons : Transportes Aéreos de Timor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Data on the airline Transportes Aéreos de Timor in the Aviation Safety Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Flight Global Archive 1976
2. ↑ Restos de coleccao (Portuguese)
3. ^ Flight Archive 1967
4. ↑ Flight Archive 1969 (English)
5. ↑ J. Chrys Chyrstello: East Timor: The Secret Files 1973-1975
6. ↑ CNAPG ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
7. ↑ Accident report Heron 2D CR-TAI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 22, 2020.
8. ↑ Airliners.net (English)
9. ↑ Lonely Planet: Tony Wheeler ( Memento from March 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )