US's Sterling Airways retires last E145

Fly Angola grows fleet, adds first Q300

Fly Angola (EQ, Luanda 4 De Fevereiro) has doubled its fleet size with the recent delivery of two 50-seater aircraft from Avmax Aircraft Leasing - an E145 and its maiden DHC-8-300 - for deployment on its domestic network.

The aircraft are the 21-year-old EMB-145LR, N825HK (msn 145510), and the 31-year-old DHC-8-300, C-GRUR (msn 256), both delivered to Fly Angola in late October, the Canadian lessor announced in a statement. They will be added to a strategically planned mixed fleet on domestic routes. According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced, the Embraer jet was formerly operated by Sterling Airways (Jacksonville Craig, FL). The Dash-8-300 had been in maintenance at Calgary in Canada.

Fly Angola already operates one leased E145 and a B737-700 wet-leased from Mongolia's Eznis Airways (MG, Ulaanbaatar), ch-aviation fleets advanced data reveals.

Fly Angola currently serves a domestic network including Luanda, Dundo, Saurimo, and Lubango.

US's Aleutian Airways gets FAA nod for Alaska operations

Aleutian Airways (VC, Anchorage Ted Stevens) has been given the all-clear to begin operations in Alaska following the completion of all Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requirements, the company announced.

Chartered service will begin immediately, and an announcement on scheduled services and routes will be released this autumn, the company said in a statement.

FAA approval adds the Saab 2000 to parent Sterling Airways’ Part 121 Air Carrier Certificate, allowing service from Anchorage Ted Stevens to begin under the Aleutian Airways brand after completing proving flights to demonstrate the type's safety, reliability and operational soundness.

Launch plans of scheduled operations were deferred in 2021 to improve safety measures after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended design changes to the Saab (Sweden). This followed the October 2019 crash of Saab 2000 N686PA (msn 2000-017) operated by PenAir (Anchorage Ted Stevens), which killed one person.

Aleutian Airways is a joint venture between several veteran airline investors and operators, including SEC-registered investment firm Wexford Capital, Anchorage-based private investment...

Aleutian Airways defers scheduled launch for safety reasons

Aleutian Airways (VC, Anchorage Ted Stevens) has deferred the launch of scheduled operations between Anchorage Ted Stevens and Dutch Harbor/Unalaska to March 2022 to "tighten up" safety measures after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended design changes to the Saab 2000, public broadcaster KUCB has reported.

"We've decided that, proactively, we're going to be putting in place some additional safety mitigations just to further improve our operating margins in Unalaska... There are processes that take place in the pilots' decision making that we just want to take a look at and further tighten up," co-owner Kent Craford explained.

The airline first announced that it would launch flights in autumn 2021 and subsequently scheduled them for December 2, 2021.

On November 2, the NTSB published the results of its two-year investigation into the October 2019 crash of Saab 2000 N686PA (msn 2000-017) operated by PenAir (Anchorage Ted Stevens), in which one passenger was killed and the aircraft written off. The NTSB said the design of the type's...

US's Aleutian Airways to launch in late 4Q21