Faucett Perú

The Compañía de Aviación Faucett SA, commonly known as Faucett Perú or simply Faucett, was a Peruvian airline, which in 1999 ceased their service.

Foundation

Elmer J. Faucett and a group of Peruvian businessmen banded together in 1928 to at all to establish the first commercial airline in Peru, and one of the oldest in Latin America. Flights were conducted in the south with Stinson Detroiter F -19 aircraft from Lima to Talara to the north, and Arequipa.

Development

, 1938, " Faucett " with the company " Aerovias del Peru " together. After the Second World War, the company was equipped with machines of the type Douglas DC-3 and Douglas DC-4. In the 1960s Douglas DC-6B were put into service.

The jet age began for " Faucett " in March 1968 with the introduction of the Boeing 727- 100QC and -200 in the fleet. In July 1971, the airline BAC One-Eleven jets version received " Series 475 ", for which she was the first customer. Douglas DC-8 -62- jets flew to Miami / Florida - this was the only international route in passenger transport of society. With the aging of the fleet then only air freight was transported more frequently. The largest share holder of the company was Aeronaves del Perú, a pure air freight companies.

On 15 November 1999, the airline was declared bankrupt and put only a few months after the Aeroperú their services a.

Incidents and accidents

On 11 September 1990, a Boeing 727-200 went during a ferry flight from Malta via Keflavik, Iceland, 350 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland out of fuel. From the three -man crew and 15 members of the airline nobody on board survived. It is assumed that navigation problems were partly to blame for the crash.

On February 29 / 1 March 1996 Note time change, crashed Faucett Flight 251, a chartered American Airlines Boeing 737-200, 5 minutes before landing on the Arequipa airport to the nearby mountains, it all died on board 117 passengers and 6 crew members.