LADE
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Founded | September 1940 | ||||||
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Fleet size | 4 | ||||||
Destinations | 30 | ||||||
Headquarters | El Palomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||
Website | lade.com.ar |
LADE - Líneas Aéreas del Estado (English: State Air Lines) is an airline based in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina owned by the Argentine state and operated by the Argentine Air Force. It provides domestic scheduled services, mainly in Patagonia.
History
The airline was established as an arm of the
At March 1970, LADE had 150 employees and its fleet consisted of 14 DC-3s, two DC-4s, three
At July 1980Fokker F.28-1000Cs and seven Twin Otters.[6] Ten years later, at March 1990 , the fleet had grown to include five Fokker F.28-1000Cs, 13 F.27s —six -400Ms, two -500s and five -600s—, one Lockheed L-100-30 and seven Twin Otters.[10] At March 2004,[update] LADE served a comprehensive domestic network that included scheduled services to
, the airline had a fleet of 11 F.27s —five -600s and six -400Ms—, fiveDestinations
LADE–Líneas Aéreas del Estado operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at June 2019):[14]
- Comodoro Rivadavia (General Enrique Mosconi International Airport)
- El Calafate (Comandante Armando Tola International Airport)
- Piloto Civil N. Fernández International Airport)
- Río Grande (Hermes Quijada International Airport)
- Malvinas Argentinas International Airport)
Fleet
The LADE - Líneas Aéreas del Estado fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of April 2021[update])[1] [2]
- 4 Saab 340B
- 1 Fokker F-28
- 1 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
- 1 Boeing 737-700
Those aircraft are for regular flights.
The air force cargo fleet is leased by LADE, consisting of:
- 2 Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules
- 1 Lockheed Martin KC-130H Hercules
Two surviving
There is a Presidential Fleet which is normally not assigned to LADE:
- 1 Boeing 757-200, callsign Tango 01
- 1 Fokker F28 Mk4000, callsign Tango 02
- 1 Fokker F28 Mk1000, callsign Tango 03
The rest of the fleet is inoperative:
As of June 2012[update] nearly all flights were operated by Saab 340 aircraft, with the
Accidents and incidents
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Date | Location | Aircraft | Tail number | Aircraft damage | Fatalities | Description | Refs |
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16 June 1995 | Jeremie | F-27-400M | TC-73 | W/O | 0 | Collapse of left main Jeremie Airport . The aircraft ran off the runway and crashed into a building.
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8 November 1995 | Villa Dolores | F-27-400M | TC-72 | W/O | 53/53 | Crashed into mountainous terrain in bad weather while flying the last leg of a domestic non-scheduled Comodoro Rivadavia–Villa Reynolds–Córdoba. | [16] |
See also
References
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- ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 3 April 2007. p. 104.
- ^ "LADE, la hermana pobre de Aerolíneas se achica por falta de presupuesto". La Nación. 21 May 2013. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
- ^ "World airlines 1970–Lineas Aereas del Estado (LADE)". Flight International. 97 (3185): 489. 26 March 1970. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017.
- ^ a b "El nuevo laborismo preocupa en Malvinas". La Nación. 1 June 1997. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013.
- ^ ISSN 0015-3710. Archived from the originalon 20 October 2013.
- ^ "Air transport – Falkland Air service". Flight International. 3331 (103): 50. 11 January 1973. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
- ^ Centeno, Andrea (13 January 1999). "Di Tella propondrá a Cook que se reanuden los vuelos a las Malvinas". La Nación. Archived from the original on 31 August 2014.
- ^ "Los consejeros de las islas desechan cualquier acercamiento". La Nación. 22 November 1997. Archived from the original on 29 December 2013.
- ^ "Lineas Aereas del Estado (LADE)". Flight International. 137 (4207): 105. 14–20 March 1990. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
- ^ "Directory: world airlines—LADE–Lineas Aereas del Estado". Flight International. 165 (4926): 97. 23–29 March 2004. Archived from the original on 4 November 2018.
- ^ Hoyle, Craig (23 November 2007). "Argentinian air force to acquire four Saab 340 transports". FlightGlobal. Flight International. Archived from the original on 2 September 2013.
- ^ "Nuevo avión para unir ciudades de la Patagonia" [A new aircraft to link cities in Patagonia]. La Nación (in Spanish). 6 December 2008. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
- ^ "LADE destinations". lade.com.ar. LADE. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
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