Bellview Airlines

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Bellview Airlines
Bellview Airlines Boeing 767-200
IATA code : B3
ICAO code : FSVO
Call sign : Bellview Airlines
Founding: 1992
Operation stopped: 2009
Seat: Lagos , NigeriaNigeriaNigeria 
Number of employees: about 300
Fleet size: 6th
Aims: National and international
Bellview Airlines ceased operations in 2009. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.
bellview-SL

Bellview Airlines was a Nigerian airline based in Lagos . From 1995 to 2008 it also operated a subsidiary in Sierra Leone with Bellview Airlines-SL .

history

The airline was founded in 1992 as a charter airline for business flights and started operations with a Jakowlew Jak-40 . In 1993 the first national passenger flights were carried out; a rented Douglas DC-9-30 was used for this . In 2009 it ceased operations.

fleet

(As of June 2009)

Incidents

A Boeing 737-200 of the airline crashed on October 22, 2005 on the way from Lagos to Abuja shortly after take-off, killing all 111 passengers and the six crew members.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Complete Listing of Airlines in Nigeria. (No longer available online.) Airlineupdate.com, archived from the original on May 8, 2011 ; Retrieved June 2, 2012 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.airlineupdate.com