AIR FLORIDA
(USA)

Since the US-deregulation of 1979, many carriers appeared and dissapeared, while other, established ones could not compete with the more successful new ones. One of these were Air Florida, a colorful airline for which the DC-10 meant an end for the whole carrier. In 1981, when Air Florida introduce its Miami-London service, the airline leased a fleet of three DC-10s from Transamerica which arrived repectively on April 4th, April 15th and December 18th of that year. The DC-10 fleet was also used on charter flights to european capitals such as Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid and Zurich. The fleet of three DC-10s (which never flew for Transamerica again as the airline collapsed only a few months later) was replaced by a single DC-10 from World Airways in 1983, but even this aircraft didn't serve a long time for Air Florida. The carrier ceased all international operations in 1984 when the DC-10s were returned and only a short time later, Air Florida, which was in chapter 11 bankruptcy, shut down. Beside the DC-10s, also 727s, 737s and DC-9-10s were operated on domestic flights and the central american network. An additional DC-10 was leased from Seabord World Airlines between 1980 and 1982.



Following aircraft were operated by or for Air Florida:

RegistrationAircraftFleetnr./NameOperated from - toWhere is it now?
N101TV46800/ 9615.03.1981 - 05.10.1982FedEx
N102TV46801/ 10315.04.1981 - 25.05.1983FedEx
N103TV47802/ 11001.12.1981 - 12.10.1982FedEx
N109WA47819/ 31425.03.1983 - 09.07.1984BrasMex
N1035F46992/ 25711.03.1980 - 16.09.1982FedEx



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