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Atlantic Airlines (Nicaragua)

Nicaraguan airline

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4199429 ↗
Source-derived summary

Atlantic Airlines was an airline based in Nicaragua's capital city, Managua. It was a scheduled and charter airline, established in 1997 and operating domestic and international flights in Central America. Its main base was Managua International Airport. The airline ceased operations in 2007.

Destinations

Managua - Bluefields - Daily

Bluefields - Managua - Daily

Bluefields - Big Corn Island - Daily

Big Corn Island - Bluefields - Daily

Managua - Puerto Cabezas - Daily

Puerto Cabezas - Managua - Daily

Accidents and incidents

Atlantic Airlines flight 870 came out On September 18, 2001. Crash at The Aurora International Airport, due a pilot error and loss of control due to incorrect weight distribution.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Atlantic Airlines (Nicaragua)” as nicaraguan airline. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Atlantic, Airlines and Nicaragua.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2007, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Atlantic, Airlines and Nicaragua providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Atlantic Airlines (Nicaragua)”, the useful work is to connect “nicaraguan airline” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4199429. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2007 and 2001.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Atlantic Airlines (Nicaragua)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.