Nouvelle Air Affaires Gabon is an

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 ...

based in

Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ...

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

. It operates corporate and freight charter services. Its main base is Libreville International Airport.

History

Nouvelle Air Affaires Gabon, founded by Raymond Bellangeras as Air Affaires Gabon, started on 30 June 1975 as a regional, domestic, passenger and cargo carrier. It was participating in supporting the construction of the

Trans-Gabon Railway The Trans-Gabon Railway (french: Transgabonais) is the only railway in Gabon. It runs east from Owendo port station in Libreville to Franceville via numerous stations, the main ones being Ndjolé, Lopé, Booué, Lastoursville and Moanda. H ...

railroad line in the 1970s. and merged with Gabon Air Transport to form the new airline in 1996. Following the closure of Afrijet and

Gabon Airlines Gabon Airlines is the name of two incarnations of Gabonese airline, headquartered in Libreville. The first incarnation of Gabon Airlines which was operated from 2007 to 2012, concentrating on African and European flight services out of Libreville ...

, Nouvelle Air Affaires Gabon is the last carrier in Gabon not on the list of air carriers banned in the European Union.

Fleet

The Air Affaires Gabon fleet includes the following aircraft (as of 10 February 2010): *1

Challenger 601 The Bombardier Challenger 600 series is a family of business jets developed by Canadair after a Bill Lear concept, and then produced from 1986 by its new owner, Bombardier Aerospace. At the end of 1975, Canadair began funding the developmen ...

*1 Cessna 208 *1 Bombardier Dash 8-Q300 (as of August 2019) *1

Hawker 800XP The Hawker 800 is a mid-size twinjet corporate aircraft. It is a development of the British Aerospace BAe 125, and was assembled by Hawker Beechcraft. Development In April 1981, the British Aerospace board sanctioned the programme to improve th ...

*2 Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner The airline fleet previously included the following aircraft: * 1 Fokker 100

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