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American cargo and charter carrier with a storied history.

Founded

1947

Headquarters

Miami, United States

Arrow Air was a United States-based cargo and charter airline founded in 1947 in Miami, Florida. The carrier operated scheduled and non-scheduled cargo flights as well as passenger charter services, primarily serving routes between North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The airline is perhaps best known for the tragic Arrow Air Flight 1285 disaster on December 12, 1985, in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, in which a Douglas DC-8 crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 256 people aboard, including 248 U.S. Army soldiers returning from a peacekeeping mission in the Sinai Peninsula. Following financial difficulties and the impact of the Gander crash, Arrow Air ceased operations in 2010 after several periods of suspension and restructuring. The airline never recovered its former prominence and ultimately shut down permanently.

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Arrow Air primarily operated from Miami International Airport as its main base of operations.

Fleet

Arrow Air operated Douglas DC-8 and Lockheed L-1011 aircraft for cargo and charter missions.

Notable facts

›Arrow Air Flight 1285 (December 12, 1985) killed 256 people, including 248 U.S. soldiers, in Gander, Newfoundland.
›The Gander crash remains one of the deadliest aviation disasters in Canadian history.
›Arrow Air filed for bankruptcy multiple times before permanently ceasing operations in 2010.
›The airline operated both passenger charter and cargo services throughout its history.
›Arrow Air was headquartered in Miami, Florida, and focused heavily on Latin American and Caribbean routes.

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Primary hubs

Narita International AirportNRT · 4 rts New Chitose AirportCTS · 1 rts Incheon International AirportICN · 1 rts Naha International AirportOKA · 1 rts Taiwan Taoyuan International AirportTPE · 1 rts

Route network map (8 legs)

Leaflet © OpenStreetMap © CARTO

Route network

CTS → NRT320

ICN → NRT320

NRT → CTS320

NRT → ICN320

NRT → OKA320

NRT → TPE320

OKA → NRT320

TPE → NRT320

Fleet (aircraft types operated)

Airbus A3208 routes

Encyclopaedia

Arrow Air was a passenger and cargo airline based in Building 712 on the grounds of Miami International Airport (MIA) in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The airline was started in 1981 as the latest in a series of aviation businesses controlled by George E. Batchelor, starting in 1946 with an earlier California-based airline Arrow Airways, an irregular air carrier shut down by the Federal government in 1951. Batchelor saw Arrow Air as a re-start of Arrow Airways, though they were separate corporations and separate certificates.

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