National Airways

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National Airways is an airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a general aviation company offering a range of products and servicesfor aircraft and helicopters, including maintenance, pilot training, aircraft and spares sales and aviation management. NAC Charter is the flight operations and charter division. Its main bases are Nelspruit Airport, Lanseria Airport, Cape Town International Airport, Sir Seretse Khama International Airport, Gaborone ^[1].

Contents 1 Code data 2 History 3 Fleet 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Code data

• ICAO Code: NTN
• Callsign: Natchair ^[2]

[edit] History

The airline was established in 1946 and started operations on 25 May 1946. On 1 July 1999, Safair, a subsidiary of Imperial Holdings Group, purchased NAC. At the same time Streamline Aviation merged into NAC to form NAC Charter. The airline is owned by Imperial Holdings (68%) and management (38%) ^[1].

[edit] Fleet

As of August 2006 the National Airways fleet includes ^[3] :

• 8 Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliner
• 12 Raytheon Beech 1900D Airliner

As of January 2005 the National Airways fleet includes ^[1] :

• 1 Bombardier Learjet 35A
• 1 Raytheon Beech King Air 200
• 1 Raytheon Beech King Air B200
• 1 Raytheon Beech King Air C90B
• 1 Raytheon Beechjet 400A
• 2 Raytheon Premier I

[edit] External links

• National Airways Corporation

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Flight International 12-18 April 2005
2. ^ Airline Codes retrieved 7 December 2006
3. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006