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during the 1970s, rai changed its name once again to air polynesie which it felt was represented that the airline was for all of this same period, ran some of the international flights between polynesia and the outside the domestic airline of the country from 1970 to 1987 and was responsible for all of the air regular services were put in place most notably for the more distant archipelagos such as the these flights were made by fokker twin engine, le grumman widgeon, premier avion tahitien prive volant sous les couleurs de la premiere air tahiti en 1950. / first private airplane to ly under the air tahiti colors in 1950, the grumman widgeon. in the mid 1980s air polynesie became air l annee 1987 marque non seulement le changement d identite d air polynesie en air tahiti mais egalement le debut d une union forte avec new air tahiti company became under the sole control of public and private polynesian entirely in the hands of polynesians who now also had a certain amount of autonomy from the country s hold on it s own domestic travel was a key strategy in helping it become more the structural norms, air tahiti elected for its new plus confortables, plus economes mais aussi plus performants et tres bien comprendre le caractere courant des voyages aeriens pour les polynesiens 1987 not only marked an identity change, as air polynesie became air tahiti, but also was the beginning of a long relationship between the airline and the aeronautical construction tahiti began to modernize its fleet by receiving economical but also better performing and very well adapted to the islands, atr aircraft progressively replaced all of air tahiti s other regularly sold off so that today the average age revue de bord n°62 / air tahiti / on-board magazine n°62 59