Viking Will Be Back, Despite Aircraft Missing LABACE Static
A glitch in the paperwork meant that Viking Aircraft was too late to get its aircraft into the static display at LABACE.
Of the 70 aircraft scheduled to be parked in the LABACE 2014 static display here at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, the Viking Twin Otter was the only one that didn’t make it to the big stage. The company got its display aircraft here all the way from Canada (a customer aircraft, to be delivered after the show), but that wasn’t enough. “We got the aircraft here in time, but not through Customs,” Viking’s international sales and marketing v-p Evan McCorry told AIN, “It was more of a timing issue than anything else, a combination of circumstances.” This left a space in front of Viking’s chalet, which it duly filled with tables and a model of the aircraft. Interested parties still got to see the Twin Otter, at Líder Aviação’s hangar.
