Silver Airways to switch to an exclusively-Saab fleet
10MAY2013
Silver Airways (3M,
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International (FLL)) has decided to remove all twelve of its remaining
Beech 1900D turboprops and will instead shift to being an exclusive
Saab 340B operator, of which it has seventeen. The aircraft were acquired by the airline's current owners, Victory Park, who bought twenty-one 1900Ds from
Raytheon (RAY,
Tucson International (TUS)) for Silver Airways' predecessor,
Gulfstream International Airlines (3M,
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International (FLL)), in 2011. The Florida-based operator had used its 1900Ds on flights throughout Florida, the Bahamas and Cleveland under the United Express banner.