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Comores was founded in 1966 as a charter operator. The airline began service with a Piper PA-23 Aztec B and a Piper PA-23 Apache 160 on routes within the Comoros Islands. The airline then procured two De Havilland D.H.114 from the French carrier
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and began operations with four
Douglas DC-4s. By the late 1980s the carriers fleet included a Boeing 737-200 (leased from
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was the flag carrier of the
Comoros that operated from 1966 to 1995. The airline was 49% owned by
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The airlines route network remained basically unchanged throughout its entire existence:
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The Air
Comores fleet by 1995 consisted of the following aircraft:
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to the fleet. The airline ceased operations in 1974.
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217:Mohéli Bandar Es Eslam Airport
86:Holding company#Parent company
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875:Airlines established in 1966
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770:Flandre Air
727:Air Corsica
652:Flight 5672
646:Flight 4590
634:Flight 8969
628:Flight 296Q
610:Flight 1611
580:Flight 2005
316:Fokker F.27
20:Air Comores
864:Categories
810:Air Orient
696:Max Hymans
670:Flight 066
664:Flight 447
658:Flight 358
640:Flight 422
616:Flight 212
604:Flight 212
592:Flight 117
586:Flight 007
574:Flight 406
568:Flight 343
562:Flight 178
546:Flight 009
540:Flight 072
512:Air France
424:2021-11-13
340:References
161:Fokker F27
121:Air France
103:Key people
90:Air France
820:Air Union
815:Air Inter
754:Airlinair
706:Ben Smith
463:Companies
146:Nord 262s
785:Régional
765:Brit Air
729:(11.94%)
475:Aviation
328:See also
270:Tanzania
248:Dzaoudzi
163:, three
140:and two
40:Callsign
795:Servair
519:History
437:Portals
204:Anjouan
198:Comoros
127:History
61:Founded
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684:People
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167:and a
98:Moroni
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288:Fleet
775:Joon
395:ISBN
361:ISBN
72:1995
64:1966
35:ICAO
30:IATA
134:UTA
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