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Hewa Bora Airways
IATA EO	ICAO ALX	Callsign ALL CONGO
Founded		1994
Hubs		N'Djili International Airport (Kinshasa) (FIH)
Focus cities		Brussels, Lubumbashi, Johannesburg
Frequent flyer program		HBA Pass
Fleet size		18
Destinations		14
Parent company		Hewa Bora Airways
Company slogan		"Nº1 in DRC"
Headquarters		Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Key people		Stavros Papaioannou (Chairman and CEO)
Website: www.hba.cd

Hewa Bora Airways is an airline based in Barumbu, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of Congo's largest airlines and operates regional and domestic services. Its main base is Kinshasa International Airport.^[1]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Blacklist 2 Destinations 3 Fleet 4 Incidents and accidents 5 References 6 External links

The airline was established and started operations in 1994 with the joining together of Zaire Airlines, Zaire Express and Congo Airlines. It has 1,100 employees (at March 2007).^[1]

On November 1, 2007 HBA (51%) and Brussels Airlines subsidiary Pan African Airlines (49%) announced a new domestic partnership to be called airDC, to operate BAe 146-200 and Boeing 737 aircraft, principally to Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi, Brazzaville and Douala.^[2] Coming on the heels of the DRC's October 2007 ban on Antonov flights, market conditions for the new carrier are promising.

The entire Hewa Bora Airways fleet is black listed in European skies, with the exception of one aircraft, the newly acquired Boeing 767-200ER. The Lockheed TriStar 500 was also accepted in Europe before new noise regulations definitively banned this aircraft.^{[citation needed]}

Hewa Bora Airways operates the following services (at January 2005):^{[citation needed]}

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Gemena, Goma, Kananga, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Lubumbashi, Mbandaka and Mbuji-Mayi.
• International scheduled destinations: Brussels, Douala, Johannesburg, Lagos, Lome, Abuja.

The Hewa Bora Airways fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007) ^[1] :

• 1 Boeing 767-200ER
• 5 Boeing 727-200
• 3 Boeing 727-100
• 1 Boeing 727-100F
• 1 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50
• 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-55
• 3 Boeing 707-300C
• 1 Lockheed L-1011-500 Tristar

The Boeing 767-200ER replaced the Lockheed Tristar on the Kinshasa-Brussels route.

• On April 26, 2002 a Hewa Bora Airways Boeing 707-366C (Registration 9Q-CKB, Serial 193C-1227) on a cargo flight from Johannesburg, South Africa (Johannesburg International Airport) to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (N'Djili Airport) lost directional control on landing in a storm and ran off the side of the runway causing damage to the right main gear. None of the 3 crew members on board were killed but the aircraft was written off.^[3][4]
• On August 8, 2002 a Hewa Bora Airways Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 250 (Registration 9Q-CHA, Serial 193C-1227) on a ferry flight from Libreville, Gabon (Libreville International Airport) to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (N'Djili Airport) blew out all the landing gear tyres on landing. There were no fatalities but the aircraft was written off.^[5]

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Directory: World Airlines", Flight International, 2007-04-03, p. 90. 
2. ^ Radio Okapi (1 November 2007)
3. ^ Airframes.org
4. ^ Jetphotos.net on 707-19844
5. ^ Jetphotos.net on L1011-193C-1227

• Hewa Bora Airways
• Hewa Bora Airways at the Aviation Safety Network Database
• Aviation Photos: Hewa Bora Airways at Airliners.net
• Aviation Photos: Hewa Bora Airways (HBA) at JetPhotos.net

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