Vincent Aviation

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Vincent Aviation

IATA BF*	ICAO VAL^[1]	Callsign VINCENT^[1]

Founded

1992

Hubs

Wellington International Airport, Darwin International Airport

Fleet size

Destinations

3 (Scheduled)

Headquarters

Wellington, New Zealand

Key people

Peter Vincent (Founder, CEO)

Website

www.vincentaviation.com.au www.vincentaviation.co.nz

Vincent Aviation aircraft (VH-VAZ) landing at Darwin International Airport

Vincent Aviation is an airline based in Wellington, New Zealand. It operates air charter, freight and subcontract flights with hubs at Wellington International Airport and Darwin International Airport, Australia. It was founded by Peter Vincent in 1992.

Services

Vincent Aviation serves primarily as a charter airline. It operates scheduled passenger services in Australia into Groote Eylandt and Cairns from Darwin, and charter flights to Halls Creek, Bootu Creek, Lombarding and Fortescue.^[2] Vincent also does work in Japan, Ireland, Malaysia and Indonesia. For a few months it operated scheduled flights from Darwin to Dili, Timor Leste, but these ceased early in 2012. Airways New Zealand awarded Vincent the contract to provide air cabability for the calibration of instrument approach aids throughout New Zealand.

Vincent Aviation's Air Charter business has been growing in New Zealand and works with corporate clients as well as sports teams including some work with New Zealand rugby teams. Vincent Aviation currently operates one J32 (ZK-LFW) exclusively for LifeFlight based in Wellington on Air Ambulance duties and a further two J32s and one J31 (ZK-VAH, VAI and JSH) on charter services throughout New Zealand.

Fleet

As of August 2013, the Vincent Aviation fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Wellington, New Zealand based fleet

Aircraft	Total	Passengers	Notes
British Aerospace J31 Jetstream	1	19
British Aerospace J32EP Jetstream	3	19

Darwin, Australia based fleet

Aircraft	Total	Passengers (Economy Class)	Notes
Beechcraft 1900C Airliner	2	19
Beechcraft 1900D Airliner	3	19
Saab 340B	4	34
BAe 146-200	1	84Y or 48J	Operates Brisbane to Roma flights

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Not an ICAO allocation - issued for domestic use by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
↑ (From Route Map)http://www.vincentaviation.com.au/

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