SATA Air Açores
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SATA Air Açores is a Portuguese airline based in São Sebastião, Ponta Delgado in the Azores, Portugal. It operates scheduled passenger, cargo and mail services mainly around the Azores but also Madeir
A now retired SATA Air Açores British Aerospace ATP
SATA headquarters in Ponta Delgada
SATA Air Açores Bombardier Dash 8 Q400
Aviation in the Azores
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Aviation in the Azores is part of the greater history of aviation in Portugal, and involves the historical use of the archipelago of the Azores by North American, South American and European pioneers
SATA Air Açores
…the plane not keeping above the minimum safe altitude, the plane crashed into the north face of Pico da Esperança. All 35 people on board were killed. Aviation in the Azores Messias, R. (2009-10-18). "Açores e a Aviação". Revista DI (in Portuguese). No. 340. pp. 16–17…
The 1st U.S. Aeronautical company in Ponta Delgada (21 January 1918); one of the first completely equipped American aviation units to serve overseas in World War I
The NC-3, one of the three hydroplanes commanded by Albert Cushing Read, that was unable to complete its trans-Atlantic journey, in Ponta Delgada (19 May 1919)
The Amiot 123 piloted by Idzikowski and Kubala that was destroyed in Graciosa, on the Polish trans-Atlantic flight attempt
The Yankee Clipper, which started the trans-Atlantic mail service and frequently stopped in Horta (en route to Lisbon): it crashed in Lisbon on 22 February 1943