LADE
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History
The airline was established as an arm of the Argentine Air Force in Template:Start date to service unprofitable routes to remote areas.[1] It was initially known as Líneas Aéreas Suroeste and consolidated under the present title in 1945 with another air force branch, Líneas Aéreas Noreste.[2] By Template:Start date, DC-3s, DC-4s and Vikings made up LADE's fleet.[1]
At March 1970, LADE had 150 employees and its fleet consisted of 14 DC-3s, two DC-4s, three DC-6s and six de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters.[4] The carrier started regular flights between Comodoro Rivadavia and the Falkland Islands in 1972.[5][6] The Comodoro Rivadavia–Port Stanley run was initially operated with F27 equipment. The limited length of the runway at Port Stanley Airport resulted in weight regulations to the aircraft operating the route, which restricted the number of carried passengers to a maximum of 22 per flight, along with a reduced volume of mail and freight.[7] The service was discontinued in 1982,[5] following the Falklands War.[8][9]
At Template:Start date, the airline had a fleet of 11 F27s (five F27-600s and six F27-400Ms) five Fokker F28-1000Cs and seven Twin Otters.[6] Ten years later, at Template:Start date, the fleet had grown to include five Fokker F28-1000Cs, 13 F27s (six F27-400Ms, two F27-500s and five F27-600s), one Lockheed L-100-30 and seven Twin Otters.[10] Template:As of LADE served a comprehensive domestic network that included scheduled services to Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Comodoro Rivadavia, El Calafate, El Palomar, Gobernador Gregores, Lago Argentino, Mar del Plata, Miramar, Neuquén, Paraná, Puerto Madryn, Río Gallegos, Río Grande, San Antonio Oeste, San Carlos de Bariloche, San Martín de los Andes, Trelew, Ushuaia and Viedma. The fleet at this time consisted of Twin Otters, Fokker F27s, Fokker F28s and one Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules.[11] From December 2008 four Saab 340s replaced four Fokker F27s at a cost of Template:US$ million.[12][13]
Destinations
LADE operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at June 2019):[14]
- Comodoro Rivadavia (General Enrique Mosconi International Airport)
- El Calafate (Comandante Armando Tola International Airport)
- Río Gallegos (Piloto Civil N. Fernández International Airport)
- Río Grande (Hermes Quijada International Airport)
- Ushuaia (Malvinas Argentinas International Airport)
Fleet
The LADE - Líneas Aéreas del Estado fleet consists of the following aircraft (Template:As of)[1] [2]
Those aircraft are for regular flights.
The air force cargo fleet is leased by LADE, consisting of:
Two surviving Lockheed Martin C-130B Hercules were retired by the air force in 2011, while the sole Lockheed Martin L-100-30 Hercules has been inoperative since early 2010.
There is a Presidential Fleet which is normally not assigned to LADE:
- 1 Boeing 757-200, callsign Tango 01
- 1 Fokker F28 Mk4000, callsign Tango 02
- 1 Fokker F28 Mk1000, callsign Tango 03
The rest of the fleet is inoperative:
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Accidents and incidents
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| Date | Location | Aircraft | Tail number | Aircraft damage | Fatalities | Description | Refs |
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| Template:Dts | Template:FlagiconJeremie | F27-400M | TC-73 | W/O | Template:Nts | Collapse of left main landing gear on touchdown at Jeremie Airport. The aircraft ran off the runway and crashed into a building. | [15] |
| Template:Dts | Template:FlagiconVilla Dolores | F27-400M | TC-72 | W/O | Template:Nts/53 | Crashed into mountainous terrain in bad weather while flying the last leg of a domestic non-scheduled Comodoro Rivadavia–Villa Reynolds–Córdoba. | [16] |
See also
References
External links
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