Air Atlantique

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airline = Air Atlantique

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ICAO = AAG
callsign = ATLANTIC
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headquarters = Coventry, United Kingdom
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website = http://www.airatlantique.co.uk/

Air Atlantique is an airline based in Coventry, United Kingdom. It has as a wet lease operation using ATR 42 and ATR 72 aircraft. Its main base is Coventry Airportcite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 52 | date= 2007-03-27] .

History

The Air Atlantique Group started as an air taxi operation in 1969 under the name of General Aviation Services, based in Jersey, Channel Islands. The Air Atlantique name was adopted in June 1977 when freight charter flights were launched with Douglas DC-3 aircraft. The Group moved to its present base in Coventry in December 1985. Between then and the late 1990s, it expanded its operations to create pilot training facilities, aircraft engineering shops, survey and aerial reconnaissance work and other aviation-related activities. Between 1990 and 1994 scheduled passenger services were operated from the Channel Islands as Air Corbiere. Highland Airways was established in 1991 at Inverness Airport.

Atlantic Airlines, which previously operated all-cargo airline activities within the Air Atlantique Group, was the subject of a management buy-out in July 2004 and now operates as an independent company. Other parts of the Group were similarly spun off as owners Mike Collett and James Foden approached retirement. Atlantic Flight Training and Atlantic Reconnaissance (now renamed RVL Group) have also become independent businesses.

Air Atlantique still operates a number of historic aircraft as the Air Atlantique Classic Flight. It also owns CFS Aeroproducts and manages various minority investments for its owners.

Fleet

The Air Atlantique fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2007):
Anson,
Auster Autocrat,
Canberra,
Chipmunk,
Douglas DC-3,
Douglas DC-6,
Dove,
Devon,
Hunter,
Meteor,
Pembroke,
Prentice,
Proctor,
Rapide,
Shackleton,
Tiger Moth,
Twin Pioneer,
Vampire,
Venom,

Other aircraft now belonging to the RVL Group(at November 2007): Fact|date=April 2007

*3 Cessna 404 Titan
*3 Reims-Cessna F 406
*3 Cessna 310
*2 Cessna 402
*1 Britten-Norman BN2A Islander

References

External links

* [http://www.airatlantique.co.uk/ Air Atlantique]
* [http://www.rvl-group.com/ RVL Group]
* [http://www.thedc6.com/ The Six]