Southern Air Charter is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 and air charter

Air charter

Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft as opposed to individual aircraft seats...

 company, operating in the Bahamas. They mainly fly air charters, but the airline does offer some scheduled intra-island services between destinations in the Bahamas.

Fleet

• Piper Aztec
  Piper Aztec
  -Accidents and incidents:*On 18 April 1974, Aztec G-AYDE was involved in a ground collision with BAC One-Eleven G-AXMJ at London Luton Airport after the pilot of the Aztec entered the active runway without clearance. He was killed and his passenger was injured...
  
   - 5 passenger capacity
• Beechcraft King Air
  Beechcraft King Air
  The Beechcraft King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation...
  
   100 - 9 passenger capacity
• Beechcraft 1900
  Beechcraft 1900
  The Beechcraft 1900 is a 19-passenger, pressurized twin-engine turboprop airplane manufactured by the Beechcraft Division of the Raytheon Company . It was designed, and is primarily used, as a regional airliner...
  
   - 19 passenger capacity

The Beechcraft 1900 is the current flagship of Southern Air Charter.

Services

In addition to charter services, Southern Air Charter flies scheduled flights between Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...

 and the following destinations:

• • Stella Maris, Long Island, Bahamas
  • Deadman's Cay, Long Island; Bahamas
  • North Eleuthera
    North Eleuthera
    North Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera.Sweetings Pond in North Central Eleuthera is recognized as a site of special ecological value, containing, it is estimated, a concentration of Ophiothrix oerstedi brittlestars at up to 434 individuals per square...
    
    , Eleuthera, Bahamas.
  • Governor's Harbor, Eleuthera, Bahamas.
  • Arthur's Town, Cat Island; Bahamas

Charter services to the following international destinations are also flown:

• • Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
    
     (Ciego de Avila, Havana, Varadero)
  • Haiti
    Haiti
    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
    
     (Cap Haitien, Port au Prince)
  • Dominican Republic
    Dominican Republic
    The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
    
     (La Romana, Puerto Plata)
  • Turks & Caicos (Grand Turk,Providenciales, North Caicos & South Caicos)

Accidents

On October 22, 2004 a Southern Air Charter Beechcraft 1900C ran out of fuel and crash-landed in the water off South Beach, New Providence

New Providence

New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It also houses the national capital city, Nassau.The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed...

on its way to Nassau. Nobody was hurt.

External links

• Southern Air Charter