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SVG
  
Grenadines

Website
  
http://flysvgair.com/

Fleet size
  
7

Destinations
  
10+

Founded
  
1990

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Hubs
  
Argyle International Airport

Company slogan
  
Your Wings to Paradise!

Headquarters
  
Arnos Vale, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Hub
  
Argyle International Airport

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SVG AIR is an airline company located at the Argyle International Airport, Argyle, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines that operates both scheduled and charter flight services within the eastern Caribbean islands as far north as Jamaica and as far south as Guyana. St. Vincent and the Grenadines Air or SVG AIR, is a national airline, along with Mustique Airways.

Contents

SVG AIR's main operating base is in St. Vincent but has a maintenance hangar on the island of Bequia and other bases in Barbados, Grenada, Carriacou, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat and the Grenadine islands of: Bequia, Canouan and Union Island.

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History

The airline was established in 1990 and started operations in September 1990. It began operations with a single leased Britten-Norman Islander. The company is largely owned (75%) by St Vincent Grenada Air and operated by the Gravel and Barnard families.

Incidents and accidents

  • 19 November 2006 - SVG Air Aero Commander 500S, on a flight from Canouan to Saint Vincent, was over the western end of Bequia on its final approach to Saint Vincent when it vanished. There was no distress call. Wreckage was found in the sea. The pilot and single passenger are presumed dead.
  • 5 August 2010 - SVG Aircraft on a flight from Saint Vincent to Canouan crashed off Canouan with only the pilot on board - not found.

    • Fleet

    The SVG Air fleet comprises the following aircraft (as of August 2016):


    The SVG Air fleet previously included the following aircraft (as of March 2007):

  • 3 Britten-Norman BN2A Islander
  • 3 Aero Commander
  • 2 Cessna 402

    • They were looking into purchasing or leasing a Cessna Citation 550.

    References

    SVG Air Wikipedia
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