Liberia Airways Liberia Airways Liberia Airways was an airline based in Liberia. The company provided transportation assistance to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, passenger and cargo services between and within Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo. At its peak in 1996-1997, Liberia Airways had several hundred employees, international routes to over a dozen of West African countries, and operated a small fleet of USSR-built aircraft Antonov An-26, Antonov
History of Liberia Leone, and the Natives of Africa generally, in the Cultivation of their Soil, by the Sale of their Produce.” As Wright put it, "Cuffee hoped to send at least one vessel each year to Sierra Leone, transporting African-American settlers and goods to the colony and returning with marketable African products." The first ship, "Mayflower of Liberia" (formerly "Elizabeth"), departed New York on February 6, 1820, for West Africa carrying 86 settlers. Between 1821 and 1838, the American Colonization Society developed the first settlement, which would be known as Liberia. On July 26, 1847, the country declared independence. As early as