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fleet size on the register: 1 tracked aircraft, larger than 0% of 1641 US operators on the register.
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charter classes flown: Heavy Jet.
Middle East Airlines MEA is a private jet charter operator based in Beirut, Lebanon with a home base at OLBA. The Bravo register tracks 1 aircraft in Middle East Airlines MEA's network, from public registry and flight data. Middle East Airlines MEA operates under its national civil aviation authority's commercial certificate and carries direct operational control of every flight.
In their words
Middle East Airlines was founded on May 31, 1945 by Saeb Salam, with operational and technical support from BOAC, with three de Havilland DH.89A Rapides. Operations started on January 1, 1946 with a service between Beirut and Nicosia, followed by flights to Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Cyprus. Two Douglas DC-3s were acquired in mid-1946. Pan Am acquired a stake and management contract in September 1949.
Pan Am was replaced when BOAC acquired 49% of MEA's shares in 1955. A Vickers Viscount was introduced in October 1955 while an Avro York cargo aircraft was leased in June 1957. On December 15, 1960, the first of four de Havilland Comet 4Cs arrived. After the association with BOAC ended on August 16, 1961, MEA was merged with Air Liban on June 7, 1963 which gave Air France a 30% holding, since relinquished. The full title was then Middle East Airlines Air Liban.
In 1963 MEA also took over Lebanese International Airways. The fleet was modernised with the addition of three Sud Aviation Caravelles, in April 1963; three Boeing 720Bs, in January 1966; one leased Vickers VC10, in March 1967; and a number of Boeing 707-320Cs, from November 1967. The current name was adopted in November 1965 when the airline was completely merged with Air Liban. Although operations were interrupted by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, MEA restarted by acquiring a Convair CV-990A from American Airlines, which entered service on June 24, 1969. A Boeing 747-200B entered service in June 1975 on the Beirut - London r
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1 aircraft tracked
Nonstop reach from OLBA
About OLBAThe longest-legged type on this certificate is the Airbus A330-200, 7,262 nm published range at 470 kts cruise. That reach extends past the edges of this map, example nonstop legs shown from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport.
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Middle East Airlines MEA operates under its national civil aviation authority's commercial certificate and carries direct operational control of every flight.
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