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Pegasus Aviation, Inc. or the Pegasus Aviation Finance Company was a US based
aircraft lessor Aircraft leases are leases used by airlines and other aircraft operators. Airlines lease aircraft from other airlines or leasing companies for two main reasons: to operate aircraft without the financial burden of buying them, and to provide tempora ...
formed in 1988. It was one of the world's largest commercial aircraft lessors, with a fleet of over 200 aircraft. It had its headquarters on the 35th floor of the
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San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
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. In 2007 AWAS acquired and integrated Pegasus into its company.AWAS ANNOUNCE OPERATIONAL REVIEW FOR 2007
" AWAS. 1 February 2008. Retrieved on 8 August 2011.


Clients

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Varig Logistica VARIG (acronym for Viação Aérea RIo-Grandense, ''Rio Grandean Airways'') was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927. From 1965 until 1990, it was Brazil's leading airline, and virtually its only International flight, international one. ...
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Korean Airlines Korean Air Co., Ltd. (), operating as Korean Air (Korean Air Lines before 1984), is the flag carrier of South Korea and its largest airline based on fleet size, international destinations and international flights. The present-day Korean Air ...
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Avient Aviation Avient Aviation was an international cargo airline with its head office in Harare, Zimbabwe and its commercial center in the United Kingdom. The company was established in 1993 and offered scheduled and chartered flights to Africa, South Amer ...


See also

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Aero Contractors (US) Aero Contractors Ltd., a private charter company based in Smithfield, North Carolina, is said by some to provide discreet air transport services for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The company was founded in 1979 by Jim Rhyne, a former pilo ...
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Avient Aviation Flight 324 On 28 November 2009 at 08:12 (UTC+8), Avient Aviation McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, registration Z-BAV (c/n 48408), on flight 324 from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Manas International Airport, near Bishkek, crashed during its take off rol ...


References

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Lars Olausson Lars Oskar Olausson (20 May 1927 – 18 June 2016) was a Lieutenant Colonel of the Swedish Air Force, who published an annual volume on the history of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules airlifter currently titled the ''Lockheed Hercules Production List 1 ...
, ''Lockheed Hercules Production List - 1954-2008'' - 25th ed., Såtenäs, Sweden, April 2007. Self-published. , pages 84, 95.


External links


Official site
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