| Airline: | Borinquen Air |
| Fleet Size: | 2 |
| Destinations: | Saint Martin, Culebra, Vieques |
| Iata: | FD 3B[1] |
| Icao: | BNA |
| Founded: | 1961 |
| Headquarters: | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Bases: | Luis Muñoz Marín Int'l Airport |
Borinquen Air, also doing business as Amber Service, [2] Air Puerto Rico or Diaz Aviation,[1] is a charter airline from Puerto Rico, which operates regional passenger and cargo flights. The company was founded in 1961 and is based at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.[1]
The airline, which since 1985 has also been in the business of selling aviation fuel, is led by Sixto Diaz Saldaña, a member of the airline's founding family, who is the airline general manager, the sole shareholder and also a licensed attorney.[3]
, Borinquen Air operated two aircraft: a Beechcraft Model 18, which can accommodate 7 passengers, and a cargo-configured Douglas DC-3.[4] Formerly, airplanes of the types Douglas DC-6, Douglas DC-9, Martin 4-0-4 and Short 330 had been included in the fleet.[1]
One of the DC-3s flown by Air Puerto Rico turned out to be a legendary airplane: During 1990, a group of retirees started searching for one of Delta Airlines's five original DC-3 aircraft. Shortly after, they found out that the airplane that had become famous as "Delta Ship 41" was still flying in Puerto Rico, flying cargo for Air Puerto Rico with the registration of N29PR. The plane had been the second DC-3 acquired by Delta. Air Puerto Rico sold the aircraft back to Delta and it was flown to Atlanta in 1993. It is now on exhibit at Delta's Air Transport Heritage Museum. [5]
During the 1980s Air Puerto Rico operated one McDonnell Douglas DC-9, N931EA. The plane would operate flights from Miami, Montego Bay JA and Santo Domingo DR. The plane was shortly retired from the fleet in 1987.
| Delta Ship 41 | |
| McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14 |
| Discontinued Destinations | |
|---|---|
| Miami | |
| Santo Domingo | |
| Montego Bay |