Aerovías is a defunct private passenger and cargo

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...

formerly based in

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

La Aurora International Airport founded by Jimmy K Hall. It was the first private airline in

. It was operational between 1977 and 1998. While one of their Heralds 206s aircraft was stored at La Aurora International Airport, their two Aérospatiale N 262s went to RACSA airlines.

Fleet

The Aerovías fleet included the following aircraft: *2 Handley Page Herald 206 1988 TG-ASA; 1987 TG-AZE *1 Lockheed L-188 Electra TG-ANP *1 Douglas DC-6, 1987 TG-CGO *1

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, 1992 TG-LKA *1

F, 1992 TG-ANP (leased from Corsair) *1 Boeing 737-200, 1992 TG-ANP *2 Aérospatiale N 262, 1994 TG-ANP; 1997 TG-NTR *1

Sud Aviation Caravelle The Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle is a French jet airliner produced by Sud Aviation. It was developed by SNCASE in the early 1950s and made its maiden flight on 27 May 1955. It included some de Havilland designs and components developed for t ...

, 1986 HC-BAE (leased from Saeta)

Destinations

* Flores

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* Cancun International Airport *

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(cargo only) *

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Incidents

* 18 January 1986: A

temporarily leased from Ecuadorian airline

SAETA SAETA Air Ecuador (legally ''Sociedad Anónima Ecuatoriana de Transportes Aéreos S.A.'') was a privately held airline of Ecuador, which was founded in 1966. During its heyday in the 1990s, it flew to numerous destinations in North and South Ame ...

, reg. HC-BAE, crashed after two missed approaches into the jungle, killing all 87 occupants on board. The flight originated in

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and was to land at

in the northern department of Petén. To date, this is the worst air accident in Guatemala.Accident description
Aviation Safety Net.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aerovias Defunct airlines of Guatemala Airlines established in 1977 Airlines disestablished in 1998 Guatemalan companies established in 1977 1998 disestablishments in Guatemala