Falkland Islands Government Air Service

It also undertakes aerial surveillance of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) surrounding the islands.

The first operational flight was on 24 December 1948, when one of the Austers was used to fly a girl suffering from peritonitis from North Arm settlement to Port Stanley for hospital treatment.

[8] FIGAS purchased another Beaver late in 1982, and two Islanders in 1983, allowing operations to be restarted.

Two more, one equipped for fisheries patrol missions, were received in 1990, with its latest Islander purchased in 1992.

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Port Stanley Airport.
Britten-Norman Islander, registration VP-FBD, pictured in 1994.