Gulf Air Transport

Gulf Air Transport (ICAO: GAT) was a small charter airline headquartered at the Acadiana Regional Airport (ARA), a former U.S. Navy military airbase located near New Iberia, Louisiana, United States.Initially, the management planned to obtain their own operating certificate and purchase a single Convair 440 (N4815C) from Smyrna, TN-based Music City Airways.After changing Music City Airways name to Gulf Air Transport, management then initiated charter flight operations in support of the U.S. domestic oil and gas industry with two captains and two first officers flying the piston-powered Convairs.However, when starting European service, and due to the similarity of this name with Bahrain-based Gulf Air, the airline changed its name to TransOcean Airways.These new managers also hired additional flight attendants to crew their new transatlantic services to Ireland, England, Italy, Finland and the Azores.
Gulf Air Transport Lockheed L-188C Electra in 1981 at Lake Tahoe Airport
TransOcean Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63
Gulf Air Transport Boeing 727-232(Adv)
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