Central Charter de Colombia
| Central Charter de Colombia SA | |
|---|---|
| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | AJS |
| Call sign : | AEROEJECUTIVOS |
| Founding: | 1979 as Aeroservicios Ejecutivos |
| Seat: |
Bogotá , Colombia
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| Home airport : | Bogotá |
| Management: | Gabriel Echavarria Obregon ( CEO ), José Antonio Echavarria Obregon |
| Fleet size: | |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.charter.com.co |
Central Charter de Colombia ( Aeroejecutivos in the original brand identity until 1991 ) is a Colombian charter airline that is primarily active in business aviation . The company is based at El Dorado Airport in Bogotá .
history
Aeroejecutivos
The company was founded on November 28, 1979 as Aeroservicios Ejecutivos Ltda. founded in Bogotá to carry out business aviation and other passenger transport on a charter flight basis, primarily for oil companies. Operations began at the beginning of the 1980s from Bogotá Airport under the abbreviated Aeroejecutivos brand . Initially, the company operated a Cessna 402 and six Aero Commander versions 500s (one), Jetprop 840 (two) and Jetprop 980 (three) with exclusive cabin equipment for its business customers, as well as a 19-seat Swearingen SA226TC Metro for transporting groups of people on charter flights. By the mid-1980s, the size of the fleet was significantly reduced and all Aero Commander and the Swearingen Metro were sold. As a replacement for the seven decommissioned machines, the company introduced a parallel -2 BN Islander Britten-Norman and a jet aircraft of the type Cessna Citation II into service, besides the Cessna 402 continued to be used.
From the spring of 1986 the company operated under the name Aeroejecutivos Colombia and took over the first of two leased De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300s . Both machines were used as “commuters” on behalf of external companies on fixed routes to transport their employees. After one of these aircraft had an accident on October 11, 1987, the second DHC-6 was relinquished and the shuttle service was terminated. The company then focused again primarily on the implementation of national and international business flights. In 1991, an Aero Commander Jetprop 840, a Beechcraft King Air , a Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander, a Cessna 206 , a Cessna 550 Citation II and a Learjet 24 were registered with the company. In the same year, Aeroservicios Ejecutivos received approval from the Colombian Aviation Authority to offer maintenance work on business jets.
Central Charter de Colombia
The official company name Aeroservicios Ejecutivos SA was changed to Central Charter de Colombia SA in 1991 for marketing reasons . Armado Rodriguez, who had already headed the company in the 1980s, remained managing director. The company continued its business aviation and used its own Beechcraft King Air for this purpose in the mid-1990s. In addition, a Learjet 35 and Learjet 55 jet aircraft and two IAI 1124s were operated at the same time . However, these four and all of the jet engines previously registered on Central Charter de Colombia did not belong to her, nor had they been leased from her. The company's only task was to deploy the jet aircraft for their respective owners using their Air Operator Certificates . In the second half of the 1990s, investors were sought to acquire their own business jets, who would participate in the financing of the purchase and receive shares in the aircraft in return. However, this business model, which was similar to that of ship funds, was unsuccessful and did not result in any fleet additions. Nevertheless, Central Charter de Colombia commissioned the construction of its own terminal building in Bogotá in 1995, which was opened two years later. At that time she also had a hangar and a second business office in Medellín .
The American Beech Aircraft Corporation officially authorized Central Charter de Colombia in 1997 to service its aircraft types. The manufacturer Cessna Aircraft Company also named the company as its Colombian license partner in 1999. The previous managing director Armado Rodriguez was replaced by Fernando Muñoz Merizalde in 1998. Under his leadership, the company received a Cessna 550 Citation Bravo leased from the manufacturer in February 2002 and thus its first own jet aircraft. In addition, the company continued to operate third-party aircraft on behalf of their owners within Colombia, including from August 2003 a Cessna 560 Citation Ultra from the US company Gary-Williams Engery Corporation . In 2009 Central Charter de Colombia bought this jet aircraft from the previous owners and returned their previously rented Cessna 550 to the lessor. The new machine received the Colombian registration HK-4304 . In addition, the following year the company leased a Cessna Citation Sovereign , which it had been using for another US company in Colombia since October 2005. In 2010, the fleet also consisted of a Beechcraft King Air 350 leased from July 2009.
fleet
As of 2013, the fleet consists of the following aircraft types:
Incidents
- On October 11, 1987, a DHC-6-300 Twin Otter ( aircraft registration number : HK-2920) of Aeroservicios Ejecutivos crashed while attempting an emergency landing near the town of El Poleo (Colombia), killing both pilots. All seven passengers survived the accident.
Trivia
On August 18, 2017, Central Charter de Colombia picked up the Venezuelan attorney general Luisa Ortega Díaz, who had been deposed by the regime in Venezuela, from Aruba airport on her flight to Colombia.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Central Charter de Colombia SA, History , accessed on August 28, 2017
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 82
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 85
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 86
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 91/92
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 92/93
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 96/97
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, annual editions 1995 to 1999
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 1998/99
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2003/04
- ↑ Aviation Data Bank, Cessna 560 Citation Ultra, NGU67 , accessed August 31, 2017
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2009/10
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 2010/11
- ↑ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international 2013/14 . Sutton, UK, 2013, p. 190.
- ^ Accident report DHC-6-310 HK-2920 , Aviation Safety Network (in English), accessed on August 28, 2017
- ↑ La increíble fuga de la exfiscal Luisa Ortega a Colombia. In: Semana.com. August 18, 2017, Retrieved August 19, 2017 (Spanish).
