Tropic Air Charters, Inc.
Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator T4CA, overseen by the FAA office coded SO19. 7 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly SK-76-B. Most of the aircraft on its certificate are registered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Website: tropicaircharters.com (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About Tropic Air Charters, Inc. from its own website, read October 13, 2026
Tropic Air Charters is an FAA Part 135 on-demand air carrier based at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport offering plane charter, helicopter charter, cargo charter, and island logistics services across Florida and The Bahamas. The company operates Britten-Norman Islander fixed-wing aircraft and Sikorsky S-76B helicopters for passenger, cargo, yacht provisioning, and combination missions.
- Calls itself
- Tropic Air Charters
- What it is
- Charter operator
- Bases
- Fort Lauderdale, FL FXE
- Aircraft it names
- Britten-Norman Islander, Sikorsky S-76B
- Services
- charter, plane charter, helicopter charter, cargo charter, yacht provisioning, island logistics, freight forwarding
- Certificates and audits it mentions
- Part 135
- Founded
- 1993
- Address
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Telephone
- (954) 267-0707
Written by the site from the pages of tropicaircharters.com on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
None of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now, as far as the network can hear. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate. No callsign is on file for this operator, so flights under another code are not counted. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
None in the air, 4 not heard lately, 3 not heard since the site began listening.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Sikorsky S-76 3 on the certificate
- Britten-Norman BN-2 2 on the certificate
- Britten-Norman 4 on the certificate
- Sikorsky 3 on the certificate
- Fort Lauderdale, FL · where most of the aircraft on its certificate are registered
- Fort Lauderdale Executive · FXE
- Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International · FLL
- Downtown Fort Lauderdale Heliport · DT1
- Florida 21,709 aircraft registered
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 7 aircraft listed · designator T4CA
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/tropic-air-charters-inc.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 7 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
SK-76-B 3
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N164AM | Sikorsky S-76B | Islander Holdings LTD Fort Lauderdale, FL | 1994 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since Thursday at 6:39 pm, last near Fort Lauderdale Executive, in the air then |
| N176BA | Sikorsky S-76B | Islander Holdings LTD Fort Lauderdale, FL | 1985 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since yesterday at 12:43 am, last near Fort Lauderdale Executive, in the air then |
| N760JE | Sikorsky S-76B | Islander Holdings LTD Fort Lauderdale, FL | 1997 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
BN-2-A27 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N200MU | Britten-Norman BN-2A-27 | Islander Holdings LTD Fort Lauderdale, FL | 1971 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N298TA | Britten-Norman BN-2A-27 | Islander Holdings LTD Fort Lauderdale, FL | 1974 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 6 November 2026, last near Fort Lauderdale Executive, in the air then |
BN-2-A8 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N131JL | Britten-Norman BN-2A | Islander Holdings LTD Fort Lauderdale, FL | 1970 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since the site began listening on 7 October 2026 |
| N296TA | Britten-Norman BN-2A-8 | Islander Holdings LTD Fort Lauderdale, FL | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since 6 November 2026, last near Fort Lauderdale Executive, in the air then |
Sources: the FAA's list of Part 135 and 121 certificate holders and the aircraft on each certificate, November 9, 2026; the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, November 13, 2026; the volunteer receiver network for what is in the air. An aircraft on a charter certificate is often owned by someone else and managed by the operator. Contact people named in the sources are not shown, the site's policy at this time. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: fix the base, add your website, send your own pictures. Add the "Listed on eFlight" badge to your website.