Aerovías DAP is an airline

Airline

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 based in Punta Arenas

Punta Arenas, Chile

Punta Arenas is a commune and the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena. The city was officially renamed Magallanes in 1927, but in 1938 it was changed back to Punta Arenas...

, Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

. It operates scheduled and charter
services in the southern Patagonia

Patagonia

Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...

 area, Antarctic continent and also operates flights on behalf of the state-owned oil company, ENAP

Empresa Nacional del Petróleo

Empresa Nacional del Petróleo, or ENAP is a state owned company in Chile, based in Las Condes. The company is engaged in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of hydrocarbons and their derivatives. ENAP was created by Law No. 9618, June 19, 1950...

. Its main base
Is Carlos Ibanez Del Campo International Airport, Punta Arenas. The airline also has a helicopter operation DAP Helicopteros

DAP Helicopteros

DAP Helicópteros is a Helicopter operator based in Punta Arenas, Chile. It operates scheduled and charter services in thesouthern Patagonia area, and also operates flights on behalf of the state-owned oil company, ENAP...

.

History

The airline was established in 1979 and is wholly owned by the Pivcevic family. Its name DAP is the acronym of its creator, Domingo
Andrés Pivcevic, a Punta Arenas businessman. Its first operations were between Punta Arenas, Porvenir, Puerto Natales and Coyhaique, with the first plane being the Twin Otter. The first flight to Antarctica took place on February 12, 1989, and usually these take place on the Southern Hemisphere's summer season, employing the BAE 146 -200, Twin Otter, King Air 100 and (since 2003) the DHC-7 leased from Voyageur Airways of Canada. Nowadays, DAP leased a BAe 146-200 from Tronos, thus replacing the DHC-7s on the Punta Arenas-Teniente Marsh airfield in Antarctica.
DAP flies one of the mosto challenging skyes in the world and have a celar record of zero accident.

Destinations

As of July 2008, DAP provides daily services from Punta Arenas to Porvenir (3 flights on weekdays) and Punta Arenas to Puerto Williams (2 flights on weekdays) DAP Itinerary (Spanish only).

Charter flights

Aerovías DAP operates charter services to destinations In Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia.
DAP has the largest fix wing operation from America to Antartica in the world. Mostly by transporting tourist, scientifics and performing medical evacuations See DAP destinations map for the locations.

Fleet

The Aerovías DAP fleet includes the following aircraft (at January 2008):

• 2 BAe 146
  BAe 146
  The British Aerospace 146 is a medium-sized commercial airliner formerly manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace, later part of BAE Systems. Production ran from 1983 until 2002. Manufacture of an improved version known as the Avro RJ began in 1992...
  
  
• 1 De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
  De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
  The DHC-6 Twin Otter is a Canadian 19-passenger STOL utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada and currently produced by Viking Air. The aircraft's fixed tricycle undercarriage, STOL abilities and high rate of climb have made it a successful cargo, regional passenger airliner and MEDEVAC...
  
  
• 1 CASA 212-100
  CASA C.212 Aviocar
  The CASA C-212 Aviocar is a turboprop-powered STOL medium transport aircraft designed and built in Spain for civil and military use. C-212s are also produced under licence in Indonesia by Indonesian Aerospace, formerly called IPTN but now known as IAe...
  
   (stored)
• 2 Cessna 402C
• 1 Beechcraft King Air
  Beechcraft King Air
  The Beechcraft King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation...
  
  100
• 1 Beechchcraft King Air 300

DAP Helicópteros fleet comprises

• 4 Eurocopter AS355F TwinStar
• 5 Eurocopter BO105CB4
• 4 Eurocopter BO105CBS
• 1 Eurocopter EC135T1 (incorporated May 2007)
• 1 Eurocopter AS350B3

External links

• Aerovías DAP
• AeroRescate
• DAP Helicopteros