Bulair

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Bulair
Ilyushin Il-18 LZ-BEL Bulair LGW 09/27/69 edited-2.jpg
Ilyushin Il-18 of Bulair, London-Gatwick, 1969
IATA code : DB
ICAO code : (without)
Call sign : unknown
Founding: 1967
Operation stopped: 1972
Seat: Sofia , BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria 
Home airport : Sofia Airport , Bulgaria
Fleet size: 6th
Aims: Europe
Bulair ceased operations in 1972. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Bulair was a Bulgarian charter airline with headquarters in Sofia .

history

The Bulgarian state airline TABSO founded a subsidiary for charter flights called Bulair at the end of 1967 , which operated under the IATA code DB.

Bulair was active in the passenger charter sector as well as active with cargo charter flights.

Airplanes from the parent company were used, but with their own livery. The types Ilyushin Il-14 and Ilyushin Il-18 were used for passenger flights. Freight charters were carried out with Antonov An-12 and, on a small scale, with Il-14.

In 1968 the parent company was renamed Balkan Bulgaria Airlines , which did not change anything for Bulair.

In 1972 Bulair was dissolved and reintegrated into the now renamed parent company. At that time, their fleet consisted of one Ilyushin Il-14 and Antonov An-12 and four Ilyushin Il-18s.

Destinations

Mainly destinations in western countries were flown to, z. B. in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and Great Britain. However, there were also flights to Warsaw Pact states .

fleet

Antonov An-12 of Bulair, Tripoli 1969

Bulair used the following types of aircraft:

Fleet at the end of operations

Previously deployed aircraft

Incidents

From 1967 until the cessation of operations in 1972 Bulair suffered a total loss of an aircraft. 47 people were killed.

  • On September 3, 1968 an Ilyushin Il-18E of Bulair ( aircraft registration LZ-BEG) was flown into the ground on the return flight from Dresden on the approach to Burgas Airport . When flying around showers and a thunderstorm, the machine was flown off-road at a height of almost 200 meters near Karnobat, 45 kilometers from the destination airport. In this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ), 47 of the 89 people on board were killed.

See also

Web links

Commons : Bulair  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1966–1972.
  2. Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp aircraft-markings 72 . Zurich Airport 1972, p. 61.
  3. rzjets: Bulair An-2 (English), accessed on June 24, 2020.
  4. Accident Statistics Bulair , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 24, 2020.
  5. ^ Accident report IL-18E LZ-BEG , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 24, 2020.