Alb transport
| Alb transport | |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | (without) |
| Call sign : | (without) |
| Founding: | 1957 |
| Operation stopped: | 1991 (airline), 2004 (airport operator) |
| Seat: |
Tirana , Albania
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| Home airport : | Tirana Airport |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | national |
| Albtransport ceased operations in 1991 (airline) and 2004 (airport operator). The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
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Albtransport (also known as Altes Transport Tirana ) was the state airline of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania . However, it only sporadically carried out civil flights with machines of the Ilyushin Il-14 type of the Albanian Air Force . The state-owned company was primarily responsible for national matters in civil aviation , including air traffic control in Albania and handling at Tirana Airport and its management.
history
Albtransport was founded on January 25th, 1957 with a view to the upcoming inauguration of Tirana Airport. At the same time, Albania acquired its first commercial aircraft , an Ilyushin Il-14 , which was only used as a government aircraft . Before that, the country had neither civil aircraft nor did it meet the legal requirements for international scheduled flight operations , because Albania did not join the ICAO until 1989 . After its opening, foreign airlines such as Aeroflot , Jat and Malév flew to Tirana Airport on schedule, while Albtransport hardly appeared as an airline. Although the company briefly marketed a line connection to Berlin-Schönefeld under its own name in the early 1960s , this route was actually flown in cooperation with Interflug , with Albtransport only using the free capacities on board the Interflug aircraft . The Albanian government aircraft was only used occasionally on national and international special flights, including to Bucharest , Moscow , Prague and Sofia .
Three other used Ilyushin Il-14s, including one licensed from the GDR and one from Czechoslovakia , were acquired by the Albanian Air Force in 1971. This also used Albtransport for occasional domestic passenger and cargo flights. In 1991 the company also briefly operated a Bell 222UT helicopter for the Albanian government. Towards the end of 1991, Albtransport ceased operations as an airline, but was not dissolved. At the beginning of 1992 the state-owned company founded the airline Albanian Airlines with the Austrian company Tyrolean Airways in the form of a joint venture . After the country's democratization , Albtransport was responsible for civil air traffic control in Albania until the end of 1992 and remained the state operating company of Tirana Airport until the end of 2004.
Used aircraft
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c The Center for Defense Analyzes (CDA) of the Albanian Training and Doctrine Command, Tirana, December 2011, p. 89
- ↑ a b Albania. Air Force. Aircraft types. In: Aeroflight. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Dr. Johannes L. Kneifel: Airlines and air traffic systems of the socialist states. 1st edition. Verlag F. Steinmeier, Nördlingen 1980, ISBN 3-921334-06-3 , page 162
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 92/93
- ^ Flight International, March 23, 1994
- ^ Jochen Blanken: Tirana Airport: Concession to Tirana Airport Partners (HOCHTIEF AirPort) . In: Albanian notebooks . No. 2 , 2005, p. 16 f . ( PDF [accessed January 4, 2017]).