Aerocardal is an

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based in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

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. It operates

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and

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passenger charter services, as well as

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. Its main base is

Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport Comodoro is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Mato Grosso This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Mato Grosso (MT), located in the Central-West R ...

, Santiago.

History

Aerocardal was established in 1989 and has 50 employees (as of March 2007). It has a fleet of 11 aircraft including jet and

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, as well as twin-turbine

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. It offers flights connecting major capitals, as well as medium-sized or remote cities in the

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and

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Destinations

Aerocardal serves the following scheduled destinations within Chile: *

Comodoro Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport Comodoro is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin Amer ...

- hub *

Robinson Crusoe Island Robinson Crusoe Island ( es, Isla Róbinson Crusoe, ), formerly known as Más a Tierra (), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated 670 km (362 nmi; 416 mi) west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Oc ...

Robinson Crusoe Airport Robinson Crusoe Airport es, Aeródromo Robinson Crusoe, is an airport serving Robinson Crusoe Island, a Pacific island off the coast of Chile. It is part of Chile's Valparaíso Region, and is from Valparaíso. The Robinson Crusoe Island non-d ...

- stational Additionally, the airline operates

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and

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Fleet

Its fleet includes the following aircraft (as of July 2020): *2

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Gulfstream G280 The Gulfstream G280 is a twin-engine business jet built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for Gulfstream Aerospace. It began delivery to users in 2012. Development In 2005, Gulfstream and IAI began designing a follow-on aircraft to the Gulf ...

Pilatus PC12 The Pilatus PC-12 is a pressurized, single-engined, turboprop aircraft, manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of Stans, Switzerland, since 1991. It was designed as a high-performance utility aircraft that incorporates a large aft cargo door in ad ...

*1 Dornier 228-100 (at August 2019) *2 Dornier 228-200 (at August 2019) *1 Eurocopter BO-105LS *3 Agusta Grand

Former fleet

*2 Cessna Citation S550 *2 Dornier 328-100 *1 Piper Navajo Panther *1 Piper Cheyenne I *1 Cessna C421 Golden Eagle *1 Cirrus SR22 GTS X Edition *1 Eurocopter BO-105CB *1 Eurocopter EC135 T2

External links

References

* Airlines of Chile Airlines established in 1989 Chilean companies established in 1989 {{Chile-airline-stub