Airline Name
Icaro AirIATA: X8 / ICAO: ICD / Callsign: ICARO
Country of Origin
Ecuador
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
B732 (737-200 Adv) (4 operated),Final livery (Only worn by one aircraft),
With an advertisement,
A Christmas livery I can’t find any more photos of,
Found another,
B732C (737-200C Adv) (1 operated, was the fourth from above but then fully became a cargo type, ex-Alaska Airlines aircraft),
Not in-range of an airport in-game yet,
DH8B (Dash 8 Q200) (1 operated),
Not yet in-game,
F28 (Fokker 28) (5 operated),
HC-CDW’s livery,
Cheeky AeroGal in the background,
HC-CDT’s livery,
HC-CDA/CDT/CDG’s livery,
HC-CDT’s final livery, celebrating FC Barcelona. The jet was designated as the official team aircraft to transport the squad, coaching staff, and club executives to away matches across Ecuador during the 2008 season. This is the Barcelona club in Ecuador btw,
Below is a slightly earlier photo without the football on the nose,
From Flight Sim,
Aircraft was DBR in November 2008, only 7 months after this livery was put on, after a smoke alarm went off in the cabin and the emergency stop wasn’t sufficient enough due to wet weather to stop it sliding off the end of the runway, miraculously with no major injuries apart from the plane.
Why should this airline be added?
Icaro was founded in 1971 but really came into its own as an airline in the early 2000s with the acquisition of their Fokker 28’s in late 2001 and later the 737-200’s in 2005/6. The airline flew routes across Ecuador and the wider region visiting Colombia, Peru and Curaçao with plans to expand into Chile, Bolivia and Panama. Sadly they remained just plans as the airline shut up shop in late 2011 due to bankruptcy, retiring its 737-200 fleet.It should be added as it’s an iconic Ecuadorian airline combined with a 737-200 fleet that lasted into the 2010s and would be excellent to see at the likes of SCL and GRU. Plus, if the devs are kind, the Fokker 28’s were operated until late November 2008 and could form one of only a limited number of operators still flying the type running up to 2010.
Some airline history from wiki and from Ecuador Photography which I’ve shared before.