Montserrat Airways Ltd (MA LTD), trading as FlyMontserrat, is an airline with its headquarters at

John A. Osborne Airport John A. Osborne Airport (Gerald's Airport until 2008) is a small airport located in the village of Gerald's on the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. History Gerald's passenger terminal was dedicated in Fe ...

in Gerald's, Montserrat,

British West Indies The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grena ...

. The airline flies from Montserrat to and from Antigua, with their Britten Norman BN-2 aircraft.

History

On 28 May 2009 the airline received its Air Operator's Certificate from the UK overseas Civil Aviation Authority Air Safety Support International (ASSI). On Saturday 30 May 2009 the airline's first charter flight took place. The Montserrat Tourist Board British Department for International Development (DFID) and the Tourism Challenge Fund, sponsored by the government of Montserrat, provided the funds to start the airline.

Destinations

( Montserrat) *

V. C. Bird International Airport V. C. Bird International Airport is an international airport located on the island of Antigua, northeast of St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda. History The airport originally was operated by the United States Army Air Forc ...

( Antigua) Total: 2

Incidents and accidents

*On 19 April 2011 a Fly Montserrat aircraft ran off the runway and crashed into the embankment after the aircraft endured brake trouble all weekend . *On 7 October 2012 a Britten-Norman Islander, operating as

FlyMontserrat Flight 107 FlyMontserrat Flight 107 was a short-haul flight from V. C. Bird International Airport, Antigua to John A. Osborne Airport, Montserrat. On 7 October 2012, the Britten-Norman Islander twin-engine aircraft serving the route crashed shortly after t ...

to John A. Osborne Airport, crashed at

in Antigua and Barbuda seconds after take off at 4:15pm. The pilot and one of the three passengers died in the crash; another passenger died later in hospital. A Preliminary Accident Report stated that the right engine was not operating and the propeller was not feathered; and that "significant quantities" of water had been found in the fuel supply to the aircraft's starboard engine. *On 16 October 2012, another of the airline's planes ran off the runway at the John Osborne Airport in Montserrat. *On 23 September 2019, a Fly Montserrat plane skidded off the runway after landing at the John Osborne Airport in Montserrat. *On 22 September 2022, a Fly Montserrat plane en route to Antigua blew an engine a few minutes after departing from Montserrat.

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