We are celebrating today the anniversary of the official beginning of SATA’s operational and commercial activities, signaled by its first commercial flight on June 15, 1947, between São Miguel and Santa Maria islands, aboard a Beechcraft UC-45B Expeditor aircraft, piloted by Captain Marciano Bonucci Veiga, the Company’s captain-aviator, first pilot and technical director. The aircraft…
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75 years uniting what the sea separates
On June 15, 1947, SATA’s first commercial flight took off from the island of São Miguel to the island of Santa Maria, in a Beechcraft UC-45B Expeditor aircraft, led by Captain Marciano Veiga. The official opening ceremony was held on Santana airfield at 4:00 pm. The aircraft parking space at the aerodrome was decorated for…