Flamingo Air is a small airline in the

Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the a ...

. Its base of operations is the Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. It also has offices in Marsh Harbour Abaco Airport, in Bimini International Airport, and in the

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. It provides scheduled service to several islands, as well as

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service to the Bahamas and south

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. Another airline that was based in the Bahamas with a similar name was Flamingo Airlines which operated scheduled passenger service during the early 1970s with

British Aircraft Corporation The British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 19 ...

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jet aircraft and

Convair 340 The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring a more modern design with cabin pressurization, the 240 series made some inro ...

and

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prop aircraft from its base in

Accidents

The operation has had several minor incidents or accidents none of which has resulted in injury to date: *31 July 2012 -

Piper Aztec The Piper PA-23, named Apache and later Aztec, is an American four- to six-seat twin-engined light aircraft aimed at the general-aviation market. The United States Navy and military forces in other countries also used it in small numbers. Origin ...

experienced mechanical problem departing Freeport *18 August 2012 -

Cessna 402 The Cessna 401 and 402 are a series of 6 to 10 seat, light twin-piston engine aircraft. This line was manufactured by Cessna from 1966 to 1985 under the name Utiliner and Businessliner.Montgomery, MR & Gerald Foster: ''A Field Guide to Airplane ...

C hit trees while attempting to abort a landing in heavy rain *4 October 2013 - Cessna 402 landing gear collapsed during landing at Mayaguana on a charter flight *16 August 2016 -

Beech 99 The Beechcraft Model 99 is a civilian aircraft produced by Beechcraft. It is also known as the Beech 99 Airliner and the Commuter 99. The 99 is a twin-engine, unpressurized, 15 to 17 passenger seat turboprop aircraft, derived from the earlier Be ...

A Flamingo Air plane crash landed at the airport in South Bimini on Monday afternoon after the wheel under the right wing collapsed. *3 June 2016 -

landing gear failed during landing at Staniel Cay *12 June 2020 -

Nose Landing Gear collapsed during landing at Lynden Pindling International Airport

Fleet

Schedules

*Freeport to Marsh Harbour (Abaco Islands) *Freeport to Walker's Cay

Abaco Islands Abaco is a variant Italian form of the Biblical name " Habakkuk" (but normally Abacùc or Abacucco). Abaco may refer to: People * Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675–1742), Italian composer and violinist * Joseph Abaco (1710–1805), Belgian comp ...

*Freeport to

Moore's Island Moore's Island is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands. Moore's Island is a cay, to the west of the main island of Abaco. It is approximately long and wide. It has two settlements, Hard Bargain, which is the capital, and ...

*Freeport to Bimini *Nassau to Staniel Cay *Nassau to Black Point (Bahamas) *Nassau to Farmer's Cay *Nassau to Great Harbor Cay

References

External links

Flamingo Air
Airlines of the Bahamas {{Airline-stub