Gulf Air Transport

Gulf Air Transport (ICAO: GAT) was a small charter airline headquartered at the Acadiana Regional Airport (ARA), a former U.S. Navy military airbase located near New Iberia, Louisiana, United States.

Initially, the management planned to obtain their own operating certificate and purchase a single Convair 440 (N4815C) from Smyrna, TN-based Music City Airways.

After changing Music City Airways name to Gulf Air Transport, management then initiated charter flight operations in support of the U.S. domestic oil and gas industry with two captains and two first officers flying the piston-powered Convairs.

The airline also flew numerous charters to such international destinations as Port-au-Prince in Haiti, British Guiana (now known as Guyana) in South America, Nassau and Freeport in the Bahamas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Aruba, Bonaire and Barbados in the Caribbean, and Cancún and Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.

However, when starting European service, and due to the similarity of this name with Bahrain-based Gulf Air, the airline changed its name to TransOcean Airways.

These new managers also hired additional flight attendants to crew their new transatlantic services to Ireland, England, Italy, Finland and the Azores.