Presidential Airways (charter)
- Presidential Airways (charter)
Presidential Airways (PAW) is a charter cargo and passenger airline based at Melbourne International Airport serving Melbourne, Florida, USA.
History
Its parent company, Presidential Airways, Inc. is owned by Blackwater USA, a North Carolina-based private military contractor.
The Melbourne, Florida office has now shut down and everything is being ran in Moyock, North Carolina from the Blackwater Training Grounds.
Incidents and accidents
An aircraft operated by Presidential and owned by its sister company, Blackwater AWS crashed on November 27, 2004 in Afghanistan; it had been a contract flight for the United States Air Force en route from Bagram to Farah. All aboard, three soldiers and three civilian crew members, were killed. Several of their survivors filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Presidential in October 2005. [Wilber, "A Crash's Echoes", "Washington Post", October 17, 2007.]
Fleet
Presidential operates the CASA 212 turboprop freighter.
References
*cite web
last = Wilber
first = Del Quentin
date = October 17, 2007
url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101602001.html?nav=rss_business
title = A Crash's Echoes, From War Zone To Washington: In 2004, Blackwater Flight 61 Raised Now-Familiar Questions About Contractors and Accountability
format =
work = Washington Post
accessdate = 2007-10-16-
* [http://www.blackwaterusa.com/aviation/aircharter.asp Blackwater USA Aviation]
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