Aero north
| Aero north | |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | NK |
| Call sign : | (unknown) |
| Founding: | 1965 |
| Operation stopped: | 1965 |
| Seat: |
Copenhagen , Denmark
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| Home airport : | Copenhagen Kastrup Airport |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | Mediterranean area |
| Aero-Nord ceased operations in 1965. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Aero-Nord A / S was a Danish charter airline based at Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport . At the end of 1965 the company took part in the founding of the airline Internord Aviation and ceased operations.
history
The Aero-Nord was on January 5, 1965 Copenhagen founded by Erik Østbirk. Østbirk previously worked as a managing director for the Danish charter airline Nordair , which was taken over by Scandinavian Airlines System in July 1963 and liquidated by the latter on November 1, 1964.
Aero-Nord acquired three Douglas DC-7s from American Airlines in the spring of 1965 . The company built a new hangar at Copenhagen Airport to maintain the aircraft . On April 2, the first Douglas DC-7 was delivered, with the start of operations on April 15, 1965. The company used its three 104-seat aircraft and a briefly leased Douglas DC-6 on behalf of Danish tour operators from Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport on tourist charter flights (IT charter) in the Mediterranean region , mainly to Spain . The company was also the first Scandinavian airline to receive approval to start charter services to Israel . The first flight to Tel Aviv was on October 11, 1965.
On 30 November 1965, went Aero-North cooperation with the Swedish airline Osterman charter AB , which the establishment of the joint venture Inter Nord Aviation A / S led. In this successor company, which began operations on January 1, 1966, both companies each held half. Aero-Nord ceded its aircraft to Internord on December 31, 1965 and at the same time ceased flight operations under its own name.
fleet
- Douglas DC-6 (temporarily leased from Osterman Air Charter )
- Douglas DC-7
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight International, January 21, 1965 (PDF)
- ↑ a b c Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
- ↑ Flight International, April 29, 1965 (PDF)
- ↑ Flight International, December 23, 1965 (PDF)
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