Tropical Airways was a small

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with scheduled and charter services based in

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The me ...

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Services

As of February 2005, Tropical Airways operated the following services: *Domestic scheduled destinations:

Cap-Haïtien Cap-Haïtien (; ; "Haitian Cape") is a List of communes of Haiti, commune of about 400,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Departments of Haiti, department of Nord (Haitian department), Nord. Previously named ''Cap‑Fran� ...

Jérémie Jérémie (; ) is a commune and capital city of the Grand'Anse department in Haiti. It had a population of about 134,317 at the 2015 census. It is relatively isolated from the rest of the country. The Grande-Anse River flows near the city. ...

and

Port-de-Paix Port-de-Paix (; or ; meaning "Port of Peace") is a List of communes of Haiti, commune and the capital of the Nord-Ouest (department), Nord-Ouest Departments of Haiti, department of Haiti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 462,000 (201 ...

. *International scheduled destinations:

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and

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, in the

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Accidents and incidents

*On August 24, 2003, a Tropical Airways

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commuter turboprop airliner en route from

crashed in a sugar cane field. All 21 passengers died in the fiery crash. An official at Cap-Haïtien's airport said the 19-passenger aircraft departed with too many people aboard and too much baggage. Witnesses on the ground say they saw smoke billowing from the plane and luggage falling out of the aircraft's rear door.

Fleet

According to ''Flight International'' magazine, the Tropical Airways fleet as of August 2006 consisted of the following aircraft: *4 Let L-410 UVP

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, 3–9 October 2006 Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just three planes in the fleet: *1

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. *1 Shorts SD 360-300

References

External links

Tropical Airways HaitiRoute mapData and fleet info
Defunct airlines of Haiti Airlines established in 1999 Airlines disestablished in 2003 Companies based in Port-au-Prince 1999 establishments in Haiti 2003 disestablishments in Haiti {{Haiti-company-stub