TACV Cabo Verde Airlines

200px
IATA VR ICAO TCV Callsign CABOVERDE
Founded	1958
Hubs	Amílcar Cabral International Airport Praia International Airport São Pedro Airport
Frequent-flyer program	TACV Club
Fleet size	5
Destinations	20
Headquarters	Praia, Cape Verde
Website	flytacv.com

TACV Cabo Verde Airlines (TACV is an initialism for Transportes Aéreos de Cabo Verde, meaning “Air Transportation of Cape Verde” in Portuguese) is a scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo airline based in Praia, Cape Verde.^[1] It is the national flag carrier of Cape Verde, operating inter-island services and flights to Europe, North America, South America and the West African mainland. Its main base is Sal Airport, with smaller ones at Praia International Airport and São Pedro Airport.

History [link]

TACV was established in 1958. In July 1975, following the independence of Cape Verde, the airline was designated as the national carrier and became a public company (that means government-owned) in 1983. It employs 788 staff. The Cabo Verde government is currently preparing the airline for privatization.^[when?]

In December 2011, TACV was granted allowance to travel without restrictions to Europe, since it received the IOSA certification by the international aviation authority IATA. The certification is valid until December 2013.^[2]

Destinations [link]

The TACV logo includes a blue wing with seven lines that represent the number domestic inter-island flights offered by the airline.

A TACV Boeing 757-200 at Munich Airport (2010).

A TACV ATR-42 (2009).

Codeshares [link]

As of November 2007, TACV Cabo Verde Airlines had codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

• Cabo Verde Express
• TAP Portugal
• TAAG Angola Airlines

Fleet [link]

As of May 2012, the TACV fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 7.4 years:^[3]

Incidents and accidents [link]

• On 28 September 1998, a TACV de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (registered D4-CAX) carrying Carlos Veiga, then Prime Minister of Cape Verde, 18 other passengers and two crew members, crash-landed at Francisco Mendes Airport (serving Praia at that time) during a landing attempt in stormy weather, in which one bodyguard of the minister was killed. Four other people were injured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair. Upon approach following the flight from Preguiça Airport, the aircraft had been hit by a gust of wind in an instant when the pilots intended to execute a left turn, and forced down.^[4]
• On 7 August 1999 at 12:02 local time, the domestic TACV Flight 5002 from São Pedro Airport to Agostinho Neto Airport crashed into a mountain on Santo Antão island at an altitude of 1370 metres, killing the 16 passengers and 2 crew members on board. The domestic flight had been carried out using a Dornier Do 228 (registered D4-CBC) on this day. Due to bad weather conditions with rain and fog, the pilot was prevented from landing at the destination airport (which was only VFR-certified), so he had decided to return to São Pedro. The aircrash marked the worst aviation accident in the history of both Cape Verde and TACV.^[5]
• On 24 October 2005, the right main landing gear of a TACV ATR 42 (registered D4-CBH) collapsed upon landing at Dakar Airport, Senegal following a scheduled passenger flight from Praia.^[6]

References [link]

External links [link]

	Cape Verde portal
	Aviation portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: TACV

• Official Website
• TACV at ATDB: profile, history and events, contacts and management, historical/current/planned aircraft in fleets

v t e Airlines of Cape Verde Cabo Verde Express Halcyonair TACV