Provincetown Municipal Airport | Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
An Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante. [Bromley & Company / Salvador R. Vesques III Collection / Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum]
Text last updated on 12 March 2017 | The Bandeirante (Pioneer), a Brazilian twin-engine plane, was the first turboprop in the Provincetown-Boston Airline fleet, and the first aircraft ordered after John C. Van Arsdale Jr. and Peter Van Arsdale took over the company from their father in 1980. Tragically, it was a Bandeirante — not the one pictured above — that crashed on a PBA flight from Jacksonville to Tampa, Fla., on 6 December 1984. Everyone aboard, 11 passengers and 2 crew members, were killed. The airline itself never fully recovered from the devastating incident.
¶ Republished on 5 January 2024.