Skybus already has three of the 19-seater Twin Otters in its fleet, plus three eight-seater Britten Norman Islanders.

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In the early 1960s Regal kept a fleet of eight cherry-red Ford Mustangs for its salesmen to rush deliveries a practice that continues to this day, though with buses, planes and trucks, and which came in handy during the recent UPS strike.

FORBES: The sweet smell of oil

The Air Force is the average age of the Air Force's fleet of aircraft is twenty-eight years.

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When the smoke cleared, 13 rebels and five air-force staff were dead, and half the fleet of Air Lanka, together with eight military planes, had gone up in flames.

ECONOMIST: The separatists strike close to home