Air Sunshine
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| Founded | 1982 | |||
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| Hubs | Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport | |||
| Fleet size | 20 | |||
| Destinations | 24 | |||
| Headquarters | Ft. Lauderdale | |||
| Website | http://www.airsunshine.com | |||
Air Sunshine is an airline based in the USA. It operates scheduled service to Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands and the US Virgin Islands. Its main base is Fort Lauderdale, with a Caribbean hub located in San Juan.
As of 1985 the airline considers Fort Lauderdale to be its headquarters; as of that year the airline has no office clerks or personnel there[2], and its website lists two separate post office boxes for contacts, one in Fort Lauderdale and another in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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[edit] Destinations
Ft. Lauderdale, George Town, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Kingston St. Croix, St. Thomas, San Juan, Tortola, Vieques and Virgin Gorda
[edit] Fleet
As of August 2006 the Air Sunshine fleet includes [3] :
Other aircraft:
[edit] Accidents and incidents
On 15 January 1977, Douglas DC-3 N73KW crashed shortly after take-off from Miami International Airport, Florida on a domestic scheduled passenger flight to Key West International Airport, Florida. All 33 people on board survived.[4]
Air Sunshine has a slightly better than average safety record between 1997 and 2004 per the NTSB. Air Sunshine did have a crash that claimed two fatalities July 13, 2003 on a flight from Fort Lauderdale to Abaco Island, Bahamas. An engine failure caused an at sea ditching about 6 miles short of the Abaco Island airport. In that same period there were a few incidents. [1]
On January 7, 2007, an Air Sunshine Cessna 402, had hydraulic problems with the landing gear, in a flight from Virgin Gorda to San Juan (SJU), there were no fatalities among the passengers and the pilot managed to land the plane safely. The airport was closed for approximately 30 minutes until the emergency ceased.
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Airline Codes
- ^ Jaffe, Chuck. "Air Sunshine: It's Small But It's Right On Time." KNT News Service at Lakeland Ledger. Sunday April 15, 1985. 15D. Retrieved from Google News (59 of 99) on March 5, 2010.
- ^ Flight International, 3–9 October 2006
- ^ "N73KW Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19770115-2. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
- Anonymous. "News from the Airways." Airways Magazine. December 2007: 2.
