Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation

flyCAA
Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation

IATA ICAO Call sign BU[1] DBP[1] AFRICOMPANY[2]
Founded	1991
Operating bases	N'djili Airport
Focus cities	Lubumbashi International Airport
Frequent-flyer program	Horizons
Fleet size	11[3]
Destinations	11[1]
Headquarters	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Key people	David Blattner Daniel Blattner
Website	caacongo.com

Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation, branded as flyCAA, is a regional airline from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa.^[1]

Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation (CAA) was originally founded in 1991 and started operations on 26 December 1992.^[4] In 2013, CAA merged with FlyCongo and formed flyCAA.^[5][6]

In January 2016, the airline terminated their only international route to Johannesburg after failing to receive renewed traffic rights.^[7] In 2020, the airline acquired an Airbus A330-200 with the stated intention of flying to Brussels, Belgium which under current European Union restrictions would require CAA to operate the service using foreign registration and crew as FlyCAA has been banned in the EU.^[8][9]

In 2024, flyCAA expanded its fleet with a leased Boeing 767-200BDSF cargo aircraft.^[10]

According to the August 2013 timetable, flyCAA operated scheduled flights to the following destinations:^{[11][needs update]} As of 2024, they downsized their network to 18 routes between 11 destinations.^[1]

As of November 2024, the flyCAA fleet consists of the following aircraft:^[3]

Previously, flyCAA also operated the following aircraft types:

• On 1 April 1997, a Convair CV-580 (registered 9Q-CRU) was destroyed at Tshikapa Airport when it overshot the runway and hit an embankment following a failed take-off abortion. There were fourteen occupants on board the scheduled flight to Mbuji-Mayi.^[12]

• On 18 November 1999, another CV-580 (registered 9Q-CEJ) had to be written off following an off-airport emergency landing near Tshikapa due to an engine failure that had been encountered shortly into the flight to Kananga.^[13]

• On 19 November 2009, Flight 3711 from Kinshasa overran the runway upon landing at Goma Airport. Of the 117 occupants on board the aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 registered 9Q-CAB, around 20 were injured.^[14]

• On 2 January 2010, a cargo-configured Boeing 727 (registered 9Q-CAA) veered off the runway during an emergency landing attempt in heavy rain at N'djili Airport. Previously, the pilots had reported a loss of hydraulic pressure.^[15]

• The only fatal accident involving an aircraft of Compagnie d'Aviation Africaine occurred on 4 March 2013, when a Fokker 50 (registered 9Q-CBD) crashed near Goma International Airport. Of the nine people who had been on the flight from Lodja, six were killed.^[16]

• List of airlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• List of companies based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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