LIAT ‘70

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Leeward Islands Air Transport

 

As this is the 50th anniversary of the Antigua Sailing week we will fly a couple of the routes of LIAT, or Leeward Islands Air Transport, in the Caribbean.

 

LIAT were founded in 1956 in Antigua and are currently owned by owned by seven Caribbean governments.

 

The flights below came from the May ’70 timetable from www.timetableimages.com .

 

These routes were flown using de Havilland Herons and Britten-Norman Islanders and Trislanders. Later the airline used Hawker Siddeley HS748, de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, DHC-8 and ATR 42/72 aircraft.

For a brief period in the ‘70s they did operate jet aircraft – the BAC 111 500 series – which were supplied by the Court Line when they owned part of the airline. Apart from that interlude they have always operated propeller aircraft.

 

Barbados – San Juan (Northbound)

 

Heading

Distance

 

City Name

ICAO

308

0

0700

Barbados

TBPB

011

094

0750

St Lucia

TLPL

346

052

0820

Martinique

TFFF

001

050

0855

Dominica

TDCF

294

110

1015

Antigua

TAPA

346

054

1050

St Kitts

TKPK

290

049

1125

St. Maarten

TNCM

-

166

1225

San Juan

TJSJ

 

St Thomas – Port of Spain (Southbound)

 

Heading

Distance

 

City Name

ICAO

128

0

1435

St Thomas

TIST

114

143

1540

St Kitts

TKPK

177

054

1745

Antigua

TAPA

176

055

1820

Guadeloupe

TFFR

191

105

1915

Martinique

TFFF

129

052

1945

St Lucia

TLPL

286

094

0715

Barbados

TBPB

219

101

0805

St Vincent

TVSV

175

076

0840

Grenada

TGPY

-

088

0920

Port of Spain

TTPP

 

 

Flight Simulator Files

The de Havilland Heron and HS 748 can be found at the download section of www.cbfsim.co.uk. The Islander, Trislander, LIAT DHC-6 and LIAT Dash 8 can be found at http://www.premaircraft.com/ Some LIAT textures for these aircraft can also be found at www.flightsim.com

Map

 

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