Island Virtual Airways

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Island Virtual Airways
Hubs	Princess Juliana International Airport
Active	No
Callsign	IVA-xxx (Passengers), IVC-xxx (Cargo)
Target Cities	Sint Maarten; Amsterdam, NL; Los Angeles, CA
Fleet	777-200ER, B1900D, 737-300, Fokker 50, L-1011-500, CitationX, DHC-3 Otter, R22, Alouette II, BO105, C-130

Island Virtual Airways (IslandVA) was a FlightGear orientated virtual airline. It's main hub was Princess Juliana International Airport and the airline provided flights to some major airports in Europe, the United States and Asia. It was one of the first virtual airlines in Flightgear, hoping to live long and encourage the creation of more virtual airlines in Flightgear, and therefore making Flightgear and FG Multiplayer more popular and sociable.

Members

There is no longer a list of the pilots that flew for IVA, but it is recorded that at one time, IVA had 45 registered pilots, which was more then any other virtual airline at that time.

Cargo Branch

Island Virtual Airways also provided a cargo service that served all over the world from any two airports that the fleet was capable of. Pilots transporting cargo for IVA used the callsign IVC-xxx (where xxx is the number from their normal callsign).

Downfall and collapse

Around late 2008/early 2009, IslandVA began to lose popularity due to competition, issues with the website and the owners losing time to publicize and even maintain the airline. During the spring of 2009, the airline started to decay and eventually died out over the summer. Although the website stayed up until winter, the official date of the collapse of IVA is considered to be July 30th 2009.

Fleet

A Boeing 737-300 in IslandVA livery landing at TNCM.

A Boeing 737-300 in IslandVA livery parked in the sunset at TXKF

Airliners

• Beechcraft B1900D
• Boeing 737-300
• Boeing 757-200
• Boeing 777-200
• Boeing 787
• Concorde
• Fokker 50
• Airbus A380
• McDonnell Douglas MD-80
• Bombardier CRJ-200
• Lockheed L-1011-500

Business jets

• Cessna Citation X

Helicopters

• Eurocopter Bo105
• Robinson R22
• Aérospatiale Alouette II

Small aircraft

• de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter

Cargo

• Lockheed C130
  

Thanks To:

• Gijs (for developing the website and making liveries)
• MSmith (making the forums happen, generally inventing the VA)
• Natovr (helping with minor stuff like a livery or two)
• Simstick (treasurer)
• All the developers of FlightGear for making such a great simulator. You're the best, guys! :)
• Pigeon (For fixing up mpmap so we can filter our flights)
• Anyone else who deserves it :D (put your name here if you wish)