Tropic Air
| Tropic Air | |
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| IATA code : | 9N |
| ICAO code : | TOS |
| Call sign : | TROPISIAN |
| Founding: | 1979 |
| Seat: |
San Pedro , Belize
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| Home airport : | San Pedro Airport |
| Management: | Steven Schulte ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees: | approx. 300 (2015) |
| Fleet size: | 22 (+ 1 order) |
| Aims: | national and regional |
| Website: | www.tropicair.com |
Tropic Air is an airline from Belize , based in San Pedro . Originally founded as Tropical Air Services , the largest airline in Belize flies to eleven destinations in Belize. Internationally, it operates regular connections to Cancun in Mexico , Roatán in Honduras and Flores and Guatemala City in Guatemala . Tropic Air also operates the Maya Flats Airport near San Ignacio . Almost 300 employees handle 200 flights a day.
history
In 1965, John Greif (Senior), the owner of the San Pedro Holiday Hotel on Ambergris Caye Island , bought a Cessna 180 to fly in with hotel guests from the mainland. For this he created a runway in San Pedro , from which the later airfield was created. Today's airline was founded in 1979 by his son John Greif III under the name Tropical Air Services and began operations in November 1979 with a Cessna 172 from the airfield in San Pedro. The company had in 1981 its own terminal on the Belize City Municipal Airport, the small city airport of Belize City , build, and a year later another terminal building in San Pedro.
The company has been operating under the brand name Tropic Air since 1984 . Around the same time, Cessna 207 aircraft were put into service, which were used on national routes as well as on the first international scheduled connection from Belize City to Flores in Guatemala . A hangar was built at the San Petro airfield to maintain these machines . In 1990 the company had 38 employees and operated four Cessna 207s, including a cargo plane, a Cessna 414 and, the largest aircraft, a DHC-6 Twin Otter .
Tropic Air put their first Cessna 208 into service in November 1994 and in the following years largely standardized the fleet with these 14-seat aircraft. This included the thousandth machine of this type, which was taken over by the manufacturer on October 20, 1998 and had a corresponding sticker. In the same year, John Greif III ceded management to Celi McCorkle. In 2000 the company employed 120 people. The fleet at that time consisted of six Cessna 208s, one Cessna 207 and one Cessna 172.
fleet
As of October 2019, the Tropic Air fleet consists of 16 aircraft:
- 14 Cessna Grand Caravans (208B)
- 6 Gippsland Airvan 8
- 2 Cessna 182
- 1 Beech 1900D (delivery expected in December 2019) [obsolete]
See also
Web links
- Website of the Tropic Air (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tropic Air, route network map 2018 (in English), accessed on April 8, 2018
- ↑ tropicair.com: Tropic Air , accessed August 25, 2015
- ^ John Greif and Tropic Air
- ↑ a b c d e TROPIC AIR (TROPICAL AIR SERVICES, LTD.)
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 87/88
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 90/91
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 95/96
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 1999/2000
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2000/01
- ↑ Fleet. Tropic Air . Retrieved October 17, 2019
- ↑ Belize's Tropic Air to add maiden Beech 1900D. ch-aviation , September 30, 2019.