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Aviasur is a business aviation company based at Santiago's Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Pudahuel, Chile. Its website lists Santiago as its main full-service location, combining an FBO, hangars, charter, fuel, trip support, a maintenance centre and aircraft sales. The company also lists locations in Pisco (Peru), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Montevideo (Uruguay), and Opa-locka and Fort Lauderdale in Florida.

The FBO business serves private and corporate aircraft in Chile and Peru, and the company states that these operations hold IS-BAH certification. For passengers, Aviasur offers charter flights and states that its charter fleet holds IS-BAO and ARGUS Gold certifications. The website does not publish a fleet list, so flyers should ask which aircraft and operator will be used for a given trip.

Aviasur is also an aircraft dealer. The company describes itself as the exclusive Textron Aviation representative in Chile, Peru and Bolivia, and Bell helicopter representative in Peru. Aviation International News reported in 2016 that Textron Aviation expanded its relationship with the Santiago-based firm to cover Cessna products, after about five years of representing Beechcraft aircraft.

Other services include aircraft management and maintenance at facilities in Chile and Uruguay, which the company says support more than 40 aircraft type certifications. This mix makes Aviasur relevant both to travellers chartering within South America and to owners buying or basing a Cessna, Beechcraft or Bell aircraft in the region.