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Airline of the Republic of the Congo
Trans Air Congo (TAC) is an airline based at Pointe Noire Airport in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. It is banned from flying into EU airspace.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Trans Air Congo (TAC) is an airline based at Pointe Noire Airport in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. It is banned from flying into EU airspace.2
The company was established on 24 August 1994 by the El-Hage family and started services with a single Let 410 aircraft. Early services were largely between Brazzaville and Pointe Noire. In December 1994 an Antonov An-24 joined the fleet, followed in 1996 by a Boeing 727-200 and Yakovlev Yak-42. Late 1997 saw the airline having to move temporarily to Johannesburg in South Africa to avoid a civil war.
From Wikipedia’s article on Trans Air Congo, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
Trans Air Congo operates services to the following destinations:
Domestic scheduled destinations: Brazzaville and Pointe Noire.
International scheduled destinations: Cotonou, Douala, Libreville, and Abidjan
As of July 2026, Trans Air Congo operates the following aircraft:
As of August 2025, Trans Air Congo operated 3 Boeing 737-300 and 1 Boeing 737-500
The airline also previously operated the following aircraft:
1 Boeing 727-200
5 Boeing 737-200
3 Boeing 737-300
2 Boeing 737-500
1 McDonnell Douglas MD-82
2 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia
1 Let L-410 Turbolet
1 Antonov An-24
1 Yakovlev Yak-42
From Wikipedia’s article on Trans Air Congo, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
On 21 March 2011, a transport Antonov An-12 on a flight from Brazzaville Maya-Maya Airport to Pointe-Noire Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport, registered TN-AGK, carrying a crew of 4, crashed into the Mvou-Mvou residential area in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. According to sources with the Congo National Agency of Civil Aviation, the aircraft had been cleared to land, and was on a 3-mile final approach when it crashed. The Russian Embassy in Congo reported that the 3 Russian and 1 Kazakhstani crewmembers were killed in the crash. Local medical services report that 23 bodies were recovered from the crash site, along with 15 injured people.
From Wikipedia’s article on Trans Air Congo, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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