Fly The Whale - Lima NY Corp

Fly The Whale is the trading name of Lima NY Corp., an FAA Part 135 charter operator. An operator database shows most of its flights leaving from Tweed New Haven Airport (KHVN) in Connecticut. The company is overseen by the FAA's Bradley Flight Standards District Office.

The company flies its own aircraft under its own operating certificate rather than arranging flights with third-party operators. Its main product is on-demand charter on short regional trips. The brand is known for seaplane flying, but the current route network and whether it sells individual seats could not be confirmed from a primary source.

The same database lists eight single-engine turboprops: seven Cessna 208B Grand Caravans and one Cessna 208 Caravan, built between 1993 and 2018. A Caravan is a small, unpressurised aircraft usually flown by one pilot. It suits short hops with modest baggage rather than long-distance travel, and it can use smaller airports that jets cannot.

Its safety audit status (ARGUS or Wyvern) is not on file with the database used here. Flyers should ask the company for its current audit ratings and fleet before booking, and confirm whether a given trip is on a landplane or an amphibious aircraft.