Air Tropiques is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Kinshasa

Kinshasa

Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The city is located on the Congo River....

, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

. It operates domestic, regional and charter flights. Its main base is N'Dolo Airport

N'Dolo Airport

N'Dolo Airport , also known as Ndolo Airport, is a secondary airport in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the commune of Barumbu near the city center....

, Kinshasa.

The airline is on the List of air carriers banned in the European Union.

History

The airline was established in 2001 and started operations in February 2001. It has 50 employees.

Fleet

The Air Tropiques fleet includes the following aircraft (at September 2010) :

• 1 Fokker F27 Mk100
  Fokker F27
  The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner designed and built by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.-Design and development:Design of the Fokker F27 started in the 1950s as a replacement to the successful Douglas DC-3 airliner...
  
   (9Q-CLN)
• 1 Raytheon Beech 1900C Airliner
  Beechcraft 1900
  The Beechcraft 1900 is a 19-passenger, pressurized twin-engine turboprop airplane manufactured by the Beechcraft Division of the Raytheon Company . It was designed, and is primarily used, as a regional airliner...
  
   (9Q-CEJ)
• 1 Raytheon Beech Super King Air 200
  Beechcraft Super King Air
  The Beechcraft Super King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation . The King Air line comprises a number of model series that fall into two families: the Model 90 series, Model 100 series , Model 200 series and Model 300 series...
  
   (9Q-CAJ)
• 1 Raytheon Beech King Air 100
  Beechcraft King Air
  The Beechcraft King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation...
  
   (9Q-CEM) with Raisbeck Conversion and PT6-34 instead of the 28 engines
• 1 Let-410 UVP (9Q-CEO)
• 1 Let-410 UVP-E (9Q-CFA)
• 1 Piper Seneca II (9Q-CSC)