RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Trans Guyana Airways resumed operations on December 21 to Boa Vista, capital of Roraima State, with Beech 1900D.
The company, based in Georgetown, capital of the country bordering the states of Roraima and Pará in northern Brazil, had resumed operations to Boa Vista in December 2020, while Covid-19 infections seemed to be under control; however, due to the new wave of the disease, it had to suspend flights at the end of January of this year.
Now, almost a year later, Trans Guyana is back in Brazil with passenger flights, and the arrival in the capital of Roraima was marked by the firefighters’ water arch.
As reported by Aeroin, the restart of the route between Georgetown and Boa Vista was performed by an aircraft registered with the registration 8R-EAR, which is one of the three Beech 1900D operated by the company.
The twin-engine turboprop arrived at 10:34 AM local time on flight TGY-5211 and, after more than 1 hour on the ground, departed again on TGY-5221 at 11:49 AM.
According to the flight schedule approved by the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC Brazil), Trans Guyana’s next operations to Roraima are on December 23, 29, and 31, with arrivals scheduled for 05:20 AM and departures for 07:00 AM (always local time), with Beech 1900D aircraft. Next year’s schedule has not yet been published.
The Beechcraft 1900 is a pressurized regional aircraft with up to 19 passengers seats, developed from the executive Super King Air 200. Although not so well known in Brazil, it became one of the most popular units of its category globally.
Its first flight was in September 1982, and 695 units were built over 20 years until production ceased in 2002.
The 1900D version, designed to remedy the low cabin height of earlier versions by providing a space that allowed passengers (or most of them) to walk upright, began to attract attention for its different design resulting from the retrofit. It is one of only two 19-seat airliners in the world with this feature, the other being British Aerospace’s Jetstream 31/32.
With a larger fuselage, which translates into more weight and more aerodynamic drag, the 1900D carries PT6A-67D engines, which are more potent than its predecessors. Of the 695 units produced, 439 were of this version.