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Presidential Airways (PAW) is a charter cargo and passenger airline formerly based at Melbourne International Airport serving Melbourne, Florida, USA now based out of Moyock N.C.
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History
Its parent company, Presidential Airways, Inc. is owned by the owner of Blackwater USA Eric Prince, a North Carolina-based private military contractor.
The Melbourne, Florida office has now shut down and the company's operations are run from Moyock, North Carolina from the Blackwater Training Grounds.
Incidents and accidents
An aircraft operated by Presidential and owned by its sister company, Blackwater AWS crashed on November 27, 2004 in Afghanistan; it had been a contract flight for the United States Air Force en route from Bagram to Farah. All aboard, three soldiers and three civilian crew members, were killed. Several of their survivors filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Presidential in October 2005.[1]
Fleet
Presidential operates the CASA C-212 turboprop freighter. Recent contracts have added Dash 8 turboprop aircraft and helicopter operations to the fleet.
References
- ^ Wilber, "A Crash's Echoes", Washington Post, October 17, 2007.
- Wilber, Del Quentin (October 17, 2007). "A Crash's Echoes, From War Zone To Washington: In 2004, Blackwater Flight 61 Raised Now-Familiar Questions About Contractors and Accountability". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101602001.html?nav=rss_business. Retrieved on 2007-10-16.-
- Blackwater USA Aviation
- Defense Industry Daily: Blackwater Subsidiary's Transport Contracts for the Central Asian Front
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