Okada Air

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Okada Air (IATA: 9H, ICAO: OKJ, Call sign: OKADA AIR) was an airline based in Benin City, Nigeria. The company started doing charter flights in 1979, and started regular operations in 1983. The owner of Okada Air was Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, the Esama of Benin.^[1]

Historical Fleet Details

• 2 - BAC 1-11-217EA
• 1 - BAC 1-11-301AG
• 2 - BAC 1-11-304AX
• 2 - BAC 1-11-320AZ
• 1 - BAC 1-11-401AK
• 1 - BAC 1-11-402AP
• 1 - BAC 1-11-408EF
• 1 - BAC 1-11-409AI
• 2 - BAC 1-11-416EK
• 2 - BAC 1-11-420EL
• 1 - BAC 1-11-424EU
• 2 - BAC 1-11-432FD
• 1 - BAC 1-11-524FF
• 1 - BAC 1-11-539GL
• 1 - Boeing 727-228
• 4 - Boeing 727-230
• 1 - Boeing 727-251
• 1 - Boeing 707-355C
• 1 - Boeing 707-365C
• 1 - Boeing 747-128
• 1 - Boeing 747-146
• 1 - Douglas DC-8-62
• 1 - Sud SE-210 Caravelle VI-N
• 1 - Dornier Do 228-100

Accident and incidents

date type registration operator fat. location

??-???-1992 Dornier Do-228 5N-AOR Okada Air  ?

26-JUN-1991 BAC One-Eleven 5N-AOW Okada Air 3 near Sokoto Airport

07-SEP-1989 BAC One-Eleven 5N-AOT Okada Air 0 Port Harcourt

External links

• Fleet and Code information
• Accidents; incidents
• Photos of Okada Air planes

References

1. ^ Forrest, Tom (1994). The advance of African capital: the growth of Nigerian private enterprise. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute. ISBN 0-7486-0492-8. 

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