Kaya Airlines is a Mozambican

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based at

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History

The airline was founded in 1991 by

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as Sabin Air to operate on demand charters. The airline was rebranded as Transairways in 2002 for changing name once again in 2009 with the current Kaya Airlines. Kaya Airlines resumed operations on 29 August 2011, flying within Mozambique. Kaya Airlines restarted operations with flights to a limited number of destinations but hoped to expand the network in the future. In addition to

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flights, the company had started to fly to the island of

Inhaca Inhaca is a town, settlement in Mozambique, on the subtropical Inhaca Island ('':pt:Ilha da Inhaca, Ilha da Inhaca'' in Portuguese language, Portuguese) off the East African coast. Inhaca settlement is centered on a Mission (station), mission stat ...

in Maputo and planned to do so to

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and Zongoene. Kaya Airlines was on the

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due to its safety issues, preventing it from flying new routes to the European Union for some time. As of February 2021, the airline ceased operations again with plans to restart services.ch-aviation.com - KayaAirlines
Retrieved 12 February 2021.

Fleet

As of August 2013 the fleet included:Kaya Airlines recomeçou as suas operações internas
* 2

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* 2

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* 1

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* 1 Piper Chieftain PA-31-325

Incidents and accidents

*On 3 December 2010 a

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registration number C9-AUO crashed on approach to runway 23 at

. The cause was due to bad weather mainly strong winds.

References

External links

* {{Airlines of Mozambique Airlines of Mozambique Airlines established in 1991 1991 establishments in Mozambique