Avcom - Aviones Comerciales de Guatemala is an
charter airline
Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a airline ticket, ticket through a traditional airline).
Regulation
Charter – also called air taxi or ad h ...
based in
Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nest ...
,
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 ...
. It was established in 1954. It operates domestic charter services and was associated with
Grupo TACA
Transportes Aereos del Continente Americano, (''Air Transports of the American Continent'', known and branded formerly as TACA International), operating as Avianca El Salvador, is an airline owned by Kingsland Holdings based in El Salvador. As T ...
. Its main base is
La Aurora International Airport.
Flight International
''Flight International'' is a monthly magazine focused on aerospace. Published in the United Kingdom and founded in 1909 as "A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport", it is the world's oldes ...
27 March 2007
Fleet
The fleet of Avcom consisted of the following aircraft (as of March 2007):
*5
DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
*1
De Havilland Canada Dash 7
*4
Aero Commander 500
The Aero Commander 500 family is a series of light-twin piston-engined and turboprop aircraft originally built by the Aero Design and Engineering Company in the late 1940s, renamed the Aero Commander company in 1950, and a division of Rockwell ...
Accidents and incidents
*On February 16, 1996, a
DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 (registered TG-JAK), was on a ferry flight from
Guatemala City
Guatemala City ( es, Ciudad de Guatemala), known locally as Guatemala or Guate, is the capital and largest city of Guatemala, and the most populous urban area in Central America. The city is located in the south-central part of the country, nest ...
to
Cancábal crashed. On approach, the captain descended into the clouds below MDA. The aircraft contacted with trees and crashed, killing the 2 occupants on board.
Accident Report
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See also
* List of airlines of Guatemala
References
Airlines established in 1954
1954 establishments in Guatemala
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