Bavaria airline
| Bavaria airline | |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | BV |
| Call sign : | BAVARIA |
| Founding: | 1957 |
| Operation stopped: | 1977 |
| Merged with: | Germanair to Bavaria Germanair |
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Munich , Germany
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| Home airport : | Munich-Riem Airport |
| Fleet size: | 6th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Bavaria Fluggesellschaft merged with Germanair to form Bavaria Germanair in 1977 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover. | |
The Bavaria airline was a German airline based in Munich and based on the Munich-Riem airport . The company merged with Germanair on March 1, 1977 to form the charter airline Bavaria Germanair .
history
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The former aerobatic pilot Max Schwabe founded Bavaria Fluggesellschaft Schwabe & Co in 1957 as a commercial airline. Operations started in January 1958 with a Piper PA-23 Apache . A year later, a Beechcraft Model 18 ( Twin Beech ) added to the fleet. Max Schwabe acquired two Douglas DC-3s from Lufthansa in 1960 and concluded transport contracts with them. Both aircraft were used on behalf of Lufthansa on German mail and freight routes.
On May 1, 1964, the company received the first of its three Handley Page Heralds and started with them on IT charter flights from Munich-Riem Airport to southern Europe. During the 1967 summer season, the company rented a BAC 1-11 from the manufacturer and used a jet aircraft for the first time . On December 29, 1967, Bavaria took over the first of its five BAC 111-400s . Two of these planes were used for several weeks in the spring of 1968 on behalf of Lufthansa in scheduled services on the Stuttgart-Hanover and Munich-Hanover routes because Lufthansa did not have enough of its own aircraft due to delays in the Boeing 737 program. From April 1, 1969, Bavaria ran scheduled flights between Munich and Hanover at its own risk. These services continued to operate under Lufthansa flight numbers.
After the company ran into financial difficulties due to the purchase of jet aircraft in 1968, the Munich entrepreneur Josef Schörghuber took a 26 percent stake in Bavaria GmbH & Co KG . On March 6, 1970, the company founder Max Schwabe and his family were killed in the crash of a Bavaria machine in Switzerland . His company shares of 51 percent were transferred to the Hamburg banker Hans Salb, who previously held a 23 percent stake in the company.
From 1970 Bavaria operated a pure jet fleet. In the same year, the first machine of the type BAC 111-500 , which had a longer fuselage and could carry more passengers, was taken over. In 1972, a Bavaria aircraft landed for the first time in the GDR during the Leipzig Autumn Fair . From the end of 1972, the company flew losses and ran into economic difficulties again. As a result of the financial crisis, Hans Salb sold his shares in 1974 to Josef Schörghuber, who thereby became the sole owner of Bavaria Fluggesellschaft . The Schörghuber Group had been owned by the charter airline Germanair since the end of 1970 . In May 1975, Ernst Uhl was entrusted with the joint management of Bavaria and Germanair and subsequently coordinated all the activities of the two airlines. Both companies initially retained their identity. The merger to form Bavaria Germanair was completed on March 1, 1977 under the motto “ United in the service of tourism ” . In the year of the merger, the airline Hapag-Lloyd registered interest in taking over Bavaria Germanair and bought the company.
The requirements of the Federal German Cartel Office led Josef Schörghuber to found a leasing company in 1979 after the takeover was completed , which continued to use the name Bavaria Fluggesellschaft . This company has been called Bavaria International Aircraft Leasing (BIAL) since 1999 .
fleet
- BAC 111-400
- BAC 111-500
- Beechcraft Model 18
- Douglas DC-3
- Handley Page Herald
- Handley Page HP-137 Jetstream 1
- Piper PA-23 Apache
Incidents
- On March 6, 1970, the company's only Handley Page HP-137 Jetstream 1 ( aircraft registration D-INAH ) had an accident . The machine, which took off in Munich-Riem, had a turbine damaged on its approach to the Swiss airfield Samedan and was therefore unable to maneuver. As a result, the plane crashed about three kilometers from the runway threshold. Both crew members and all nine passengers were killed. Bavaria founder Max Schwabe and his family were among the victims .
- On July 19, 1970, a fully occupied BAC-111-414EG (D-ANDY) rolled over the end of the runway after an aborted take-off at Girona Airport , injuring 20 passengers, five of them seriously. Due to a misunderstanding shortly before take-off, the co-pilot had reduced the power of the engines. The aircraft, written off by Bavaria as a total loss, was transported by the manufacturer to Great Britain in individual parts, repaired at Bournemouth airport and later taken over by the British airline Dan-Air .
See also
Web links
- Data about the airline Bavaria in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Fleet list and aircraft pictures of the Bavaria airline
Individual evidence
- ↑ Munich Airport Online Museum, Interview with Bavaria Fluggesellschaft from September 1969 ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The mirror. 23/1972.
- ↑ Aviation Safety Network: Incident report 1970-03-06
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: In: Die Zeit. 1st February 1974
- ↑ Flug-Revue 1977 ( Memento from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bavaria-ial.com ( Memento from June 25, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Accident report HP Jetstream D-INAH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 19, 2016.
- ↑ a b The bankrupt vulture flies happily with you . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1972 ( online ).
- ^ The Independent
- ↑ jp airline-feets 1975.
