Part 135 Operator Stages Heroic Hurricane Response
Feeling a need to support its area of operations, Florida-based Tropic Ocean Airways dedicated itself to the cause.
Tropic Ocean Airways used its fleet of Caravans to bring relief supplies to the Bahamas. Photo: Tropic Ocean Airways/Captain Ken White
Tropic Ocean Airways used its fleet of Caravans to bring relief supplies to the Bahamas. Photo: Tropic Ocean Airways/Captain Ken White

Shortly after Hurricane Joaquin moved through the Caribbean early last month, Florida-based Part 135 operator Tropic Ocean Airways accepted a booking for a charter flight into the Southern Bahamas region. The company, which has conducted flights in the area since 2011 with its fleet of Caravans, had received some requests for assistance and supplies from local residents and businesses it had dealt with in the past. With little information available in the media about the situation in the Southern islands of the Bahamas, company founder and CEO Robert Ceravolo, loaded up the remaining cargo space on the airplane with some relief goods as well.


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