Abacus Air
| abacus air business travel company | |
|---|---|
| IATA code : | |
| ICAO code : | ABA |
| Call sign : | ABACUS |
| Founding: | 1974 |
| Operation stopped: | 1998 |
| Seat: |
Hanover , Germany
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| Home airport : | Hanover-Langenhagen Airport |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Management: | Margarete Kaempf |
| Fleet size: | |
| Aims: | international |
| abacus air Geschäftsreiseflug GmbH ceased operations in 1998. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Abacus Air was a German airline based in Hanover .
History and destinations
Abacus Air was founded in Frankfurt in 1974 as Abacus Air Luftverkehrsgesellschaft and although the company subsequently operated on business flights for a decade, it finally moved to Hanover in the spring of 1984. This was also accompanied by the entry into scheduled air traffic; Using a Cessna 500 and a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner II, Abacus Air connected the airports of Hanover and Cologne / Bonn as well as Cologne / Bonn and Amsterdam on weekdays . The Metroliner was later replaced by a Fairchild Swearingen Merlin IV. However, being satisfied with the utilization of the aircraft, the company was never able to achieve the hoped-for success. In 1985 the company ceased operations, and although the company was renamed Abacus Air Business Travel in 1991 , it was not mentioned afterwards. As a result, the liquidation was initiated in 1998 .
fleet
Abacus Air operated the following machines during its existence:
| Aircraft type | Aircraft registration | Commissioning | Decommissioning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cessna 421C | D-ICUX | 1978 | 1982 |
| Cessna 500 | D-IABC | 1982 | |
| Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner II | D-IBBE | 1982 | 1984 |
| Fairchild Swearingen Merlin IV | D-ICIT | 1984 | 1988 |
| Fairchild Swearingen Merlin IVC | D-IBCA | 1984 | 1984 |
See also
literature
- Karl-Dieter Seifert: German air traffic 1955–2000, world traffic, liberalization, globalization (= German aviation . No. 29 ). Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6121-7 .
- Joachim Wölfer: German passenger aviation from 1955 until today . Mittler, Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-8132-0477-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b United States. Air Traffic Service: Contractions . United States Government Printing Office (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Seifert, 2001, p. 195.
- ↑ Wölfer, 1995, p. 22.
- ↑ ABACUS AIR, GmbH .: Germany (1983–1985). In: World History. July 3, 2015, accessed February 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Flight Revue . tape 36 , no. 1-6 . United Motor Publishers, 1991, ISSN 0015-4547 , p. 76 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ abacus air Business Travel GmbH. In: moneyhouse. Moneyhouse Deutschland AG, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Seifert, 2001, p. 338.
