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Cubana de Aviación S.A is Cuba's largest airline and flag carrier, it has also a Cargo version named a Cubana de Aviación Cargo S.A.Cubana de Aviación was created on October 8 1929, operating Sikorsky S-38. After the Cuban Revolution, the airline started operating Soviet aircraft like the An-24, Il 18, Il 62m, and Tu-154B2.
A Cubana Bristol Britannia 318 at Jorge Chávez International Airport in 1972. The carrier received the first of these aircraft in December 1958. [8]The airline was established by Clement Melville Keys on 8 October 1929 as Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss S.A., initially as a flying school as well as a charter carrier, beginning scheduled services in 1930.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. [3] All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.
The Cuban Government newspaper Granma announced on 3 January 2006 the first official flight of the Cubana Il-96-300, from Havana to Buenos Aires, Argentina. [ 4 ] On 11 August 2009 Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko announced that manufacturing of the Il-96-300 would cease.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 493, registration CU-T188, was a Douglas DC-4 en route from Miami, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, on April 25, 1951. A US Navy Beechcraft SNB-1 Kansan , BuNo 39939, was on an instrument training flight in the vicinity of Naval Air Station Key West , Florida, at the same time.
The 1952 Bermuda air crash occurred on 6 December 1952, when a Douglas DC-4, registered CU-T397 and operated by Cubana de Aviación, flying from Madrid to Havana, [1] crashed into the Atlantic Ocean following a refuelling stop at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda. There were 33 passengers and 8 crew on board the aircraft.
Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana de Aviación flight departing from Barbados, via Trinidad, to Cuba. On October 6, 1976, two time bombs variously described as dynamite or C-4 planted on the Douglas DC-8 aircraft exploded, killing all 73 people on board, including all 25 members of the 1975 Cuban national fencing team.
Crashed into the sea shortly after departing Santiago de Cuba bound for Havana. [14] 27 March 1966: Havana Il-18B: CU-T831 Unknown 2: The aircraft was operating a Santiago de Cuba–Havana flight when it was hijacked by the flight engineer and the plane was demanded to be flown to Florida, but the pilot flew the aircraft to Havana instead. When ...