Private company
Airline of Angola
Aeronáutica (also known as Gira Globo Aeronáutica after its parent company) was an airline based in Luanda, Angola, operating domestic chartered freight and passenger flights out of Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aeronáutica (also known as Gira Globo Aeronáutica after its parent company) was an airline based in Luanda, Angola, operating domestic chartered freight and passenger flights out of Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda.2
The airline was established in 2001 and is wholly owned by GVA-Investimentos, SARL. Due to safety concerns, the company (along with all other Angolan airlines, except TAAG) has been banned from operating within the European Union. Meanwhile, the airline ceased operations.
From Wikipedia’s article on Aeronáutica (Angola), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
The Aeronáutica fleet included the following aircraft (at March 2007):
1 Antonov An-32
1 Raytheon Beech King Air 200
1 Raytheon Beech King Air B200
1 Ilyushin Il-76
From Wikipedia’s article on Aeronáutica (Angola), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
19 January 2008: A Beech Super King Air (D2-FFK) of Gira Globo crashed on approach to Huambo Airport. All 13 on board were killed.
From Wikipedia’s article on Aeronáutica (Angola), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
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