Featured Map for 17 April 2018:
Silver Airways ATR 42-600 First Delivery

Silver Airways welcomed their first ATR to Florida yesterday, a new, 46-seat ATR 42-600 with registration N400SV named "Mile Marker Zero" and featuring a flamingo named "Bella" on the tail. The aircraft is the first of 20 ATRs (a mix of 16 ATR 42-600s and four ATR 72-600s) which will replace Silver's current fleet of 21 Saab 340B aircraft.

Today's Featured Map shows the delvery path of the aircraft from ATR's main mainenance base at Toulouse-Francazal to Silver's second hub at Orlando. The longest segment of the trip was the trans-Atlantic crossing from Praia in the Cape Verde Islands to Natal, Brazil. At 1,425 nm, this flight was nearly twice the aircraft's advertised 716-nm range with a full load of 48 passengers but well within the range of the aircraft with a maximum fuel load and no payload.

References and additional information:

• Silver Airways
  • A New Silver Takes Off
• ATR
  • ATR inaugurates main maintenance base at Toulouse-Francazal airport
  • ATR 42-600
• World Airline News
  • Silver Airways takes delivery of its first ATR 42-600, introduces a new look (15 April 2018)
  • Silver Airways turns to ATR to replace its 21 SAAB 340Bs (22 January 2018)
• Florida's Silver Airways to start ATR42 ops in 2Q18 – ch-aviation (20 February 2018)
• New Registrations – Skylner Aviation News & More
• Flight history for aircraft - N400SV – FlightRadar24
• N400SV Silver Airways ATR 42-600 – Planespotters.net