During the worst days of the pandemic, many regional and remote communities relied on turboprops to deliver urgent medical personnel, supplies, and services and to keep them connected to the outside world, particularly in areas with airstrips that could not handle jets. As jets sat grounded, aircraft like the ATR or Dash 8 kept those connections alive, highlighting propellor aircraft’s important role in commercial aviation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aircraft lessor Avation has just placed an ATR 72 with PNG Air and has now ordered another 10, with purchase rights for 24 more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,798,799,595,8784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-atr","category-atr72-600","category-aviation-news","category-pngair"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t