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LADE

{{Short description|Argentinian airline}}

{{Other uses|Lade (disambiguation){{!}}Lade}}

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|IATA = 5U

|ICAO = LDE

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|headquarters = El Palomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE, {{langx|en|State Air Lines}}) is an airline based in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. It is owned by the government of Argentina and operated by the Argentine Air Force. It provides domestic scheduled services, mainly in Patagonia.

History

The airline was established as an arm of the Argentine Air Force in {{start date|1940|9}} to service unprofitable routes to remote areas. It was initially known as Líneas Aéreas Suroeste and consolidated under the present title in 1945 with another air force branch, Líneas Aéreas Noreste.{{cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | page= 104 | date= 2007-04-03}} By {{start date|1960|4}}, DC-3s, DC-4s and Vikings made up LADE's fleet.

File:Argentina Air Force Fokker F-27-400M Troopship Lofting-1.jpg. {{as of|2013|5}} LADE did not have aircraft of its own; all the equipment was provided by the Argentine Air Force.]]

At March 1970, LADE had 150 employees and its fleet consisted of 14 DC-3s, two DC-4s, three DC-6s and six de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. The carrier started regular flights between Comodoro Rivadavia and the Falkland Islands in 1972. The Comodoro Rivadavia–Port Stanley run was initially operated with F27 equipment. The limited length of the runway at Port Stanley Airport resulted in weight regulations to the aircraft operating the route, which restricted the number of carried passengers to a maximum of 22 per flight, along with a reduced volume of mail and freight. The service was discontinued in 1982, following the Falklands War.

At {{start date|1980|7}}, the airline had a fleet of 11 F27s (five F27-600s and six F27-400Ms) five Fokker F28-1000Cs and seven Twin Otters. Ten years later, at {{start date|1990|3}}, the fleet had grown to include five Fokker F28-1000Cs, 13 F27s (six F27-400Ms, two F27-500s and five F27-600s), one Lockheed L-100-30 and seven Twin Otters.

{{as of|2004|3|alt= At March 2004,}} LADE served a comprehensive domestic network that included scheduled services to Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Comodoro Rivadavia, El Calafate, El Palomar, Gobernador Gregores, Lago Argentino, Mar del Plata, Miramar, Neuquén, Paraná, Puerto Madryn, Río Gallegos, Río Grande, San Antonio Oeste, San Carlos de Bariloche, San Martín de los Andes, Trelew, Ushuaia and Viedma. The fleet at this time consisted of Twin Otters, Fokker F27s, Fokker F28s and one Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules. From December 2008 four Saab 340s replaced four Fokker F27s at a cost of {{US$|34}} million.

Destinations

File:Oficinas LADE en Trelew 2.JPG

LADE operates services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at June 2019):{{cite web |title=LADE destinations |url=https://lade.com.ar/destinos |website=lade.com.ar |publisher=LADE |access-date= 19 August 2023}}

Fleet

File:FAA Saab340.jpg

File:LADE Fokker F28.JPG

The LADE - Líneas Aéreas del Estado fleet consists of the following aircraft ({{as of|April 2021|lc=y}})[https://www.infodefensa.com/latam/2020/09/12/noticia-argentina-reincorporara-aviones-otter-fokker-linea-aerea.html] [https://www.infodefensa.com/latam/2021/04/03/noticia-argentina-capacita-personal-nuevo-avion-boeing-fuerza-aerea.html]

Those aircraft are for regular flights.

The air force cargo fleet is leased by LADE, consisting of:

Two surviving Lockheed Martin C-130B Hercules were retired by the air force in 2011, while the sole Lockheed Martin L-100-30 Hercules has been inoperative since early 2010.

There is a Presidential Fleet which is normally not assigned to LADE:

The rest of the fleet is inoperative:

{{As of|June 2012}} nearly all flights were operated by Saab 340 aircraft, with the Fokker F28 fleet flying exclusively for the air force. Fokker F27s were withdrawn from the LADE schedules in April 2009, although they have since been known to operate LADE flights now and again.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

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Accidents and incidents

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|{{nowrap|{{flagicon|HAI}}Jeremie}}

|align=center|F27-400M

|align=center|TC-73

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|Collapse of left main landing gear on touchdown at Jeremie Airport. The aircraft ran off the runway and crashed into a building.

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|{{nowrap|{{flagicon|ARG}}Villa Dolores}}

|align=center|F27-400M

|align=center|TC-72

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|Crashed into mountainous terrain in bad weather while flying the last leg of a domestic non-scheduled Comodoro Rivadavia–Villa Reynolds–Córdoba.

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See also

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References

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{{cite news|last=Hoyle |first=Craig |title=Argentinian air force to acquire four Saab 340 transports |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/argentinian-air-force-to-acquire-four-saab-340-transports-219834/|url-status=live|agency=Flight International |work=FlightGlobal |date=23 November 2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130902064203/http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/argentinian-air-force-to-acquire-four-saab-340-transports-219834/ |archive-date= 2 September 2013 }}

{{cite news|last=Centeno |first=Andrea |title=Di Tella propondrá a Cook que se reanuden los vuelos a las Malvinas |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/124425-di-tella-propondra-a-cook-que-se-reanuden-los-vuelos-a-las-malvinas |newspaper=La Nación |date=13 January 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831223416/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/124425-di-tella-propondra-a-cook-que-se-reanuden-los-vuelos-a-las-malvinas |archive-date=31 August 2014 }}

{{cite news|title=El nuevo laborismo preocupa en Malvinas |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/70050-el-nuevo-laborismo-preocupa-en-malvinas |newspaper=La Nación |date=1 June 1997 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131229180511/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/70050-el-nuevo-laborismo-preocupa-en-malvinas |archive-date=29 December 2013 }}

{{cite journal|title= World airlines 1970–Lineas Aereas del Estado (LADE)|journal= Flight International|volume= 97|issue= 3185|date= 26 March 1970|page= 489|url= https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1970/1970%20-%200539.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170818122228/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1970/1970%20-%200539.html|archive-date= 18 August 2017|url-status= live}}

{{cite journal|title=Air transport – Falkland Air service |journal=Flight International |volume=3331 |number=103 |date=11 January 1973 |page=50 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%200078.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214031957/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1973/1973%20-%200078.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 December 2013 }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline directory |journal=Flight International |issn=0015-3710 |volume=118 |number=3716 |date=26 July 1980 |page=326 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980%20-%201945.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020012659/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980%20-%201945.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2013 }}

{{cite journal|title=Lineas Aereas del Estado (LADE) |journal=Flight International |volume=137 |number=4207 |date=14–20 March 1990 |page=105 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1990/1990%20-%200757.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230231933/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1990/1990%20-%200757.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 December 2013 }}

{{cite journal|title= Directory: world airlines—LADE–Lineas Aereas del Estado|journal= Flight International|number= 4926|volume= 165|date= 23–29 March 2004|page= 97|url= https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2004/2004-09%20-%200219.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181104165237/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/2004/2004-09%20-%200219.html|archive-date= 4 November 2018|url-status= live}}

{{cite journal|title=Airlines of the World – Lineas Aereas del Estado{{--}}LADE |journal=Flight |volume=77 |number=2665 |date=8 April 1960 |page=503 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200503.html |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6JIPXzMTe?url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200503.html |archive-date= 1 September 2013 }}

{{cite news|title=LADE, la hermana pobre de Aerolíneas se achica por falta de presupuesto |newspaper=La Nación |date=21 May 2013 |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1577829-lade-aerolinea-presupuesto |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131230161654/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1577829-lade-aerolinea-presupuesto |archive-date=30 December 2013 }}

{{cite news|title=Los consejeros de las islas desechan cualquier acercamiento |url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/81301-los-consejeros-de-las-islas-desechan-cualquier-acercamiento |newspaper=La Nación |date=22 November 1997 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131229181827/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/81301-los-consejeros-de-las-islas-desechan-cualquier-acercamiento |archive-date=29 December 2013 }}

{{cite news|title=Nuevo avión para unir ciudades de la Patagonia |language=es |trans-title=A new aircraft to link cities in Patagonia |newspaper=La Nación |date=6 December 2008 |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/nuevo-avion-para-unir-ciudades-de-la-patagonia-nid1077887/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131230182520/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1077887-nuevo-avion-para-unir-ciudades-de-la-patagonia |archive-date=30 December 2013 }}

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