Clipper Aviation
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| IATA code : | - |
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| Founding: | 2001 (as Skyscraper Azur) |
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Dettingen an der Erms , Germany
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| Home airport : | Flensburg-Schäferhaus airfield |
| Company form: | GmbH |
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| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.clipper-aviation.de |
Clipper Aviation is a German airline based in Dettingen an der Erms and based on the Flensburg-Schäferhaus airfield .
history
Clipper Aviation was founded in 2001 as Himmelsschreiber Azur by Dietmar Knauer. Heiko Harms took over flight operations and training, he left Clipper Aviation and in 2015 he co-founded the Baltic Seaplane . Clipper Aviation's seaplane bases are located in Flensburg- Sonwik and on the Plauer See .
Services
Clipper Aviation conducts sightseeing flights over the Flensburg Fjord , to the Ox Islands and the Mecklenburg Lake District . Clipper Aviation also offers seaplane training.
fleet
In 2016, the Clipper Aviation fleet consists of three seaplanes :
| Aircraft type | number | Mark | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Cessna 206 | 1 | D-EHYW | 6th | ||
| Piper PA-18 | 1 | D-ESEA | 1 | ||
| Cessna 206 Soloy | 1 | D-ESKI | Soloy is a remodel | 5 | |
| total | 3 | - |
former aircraft de Havilland Canada DHC-2 (D-FLEN).
Incidents
On August 22, 2009, a Cessna T206H overturned when landing in the port of Hamburg . The seaplane touched down with its landing gear extended; the windshield broke and the aircraft was immediately flooded. The pilot was able to free himself from the machine. The two passengers could only be rescued dead by the rescue workers after around 40 minutes. The pilot was in possession of a valid commercial pilot license and worked as a freelancer for Clipper Aviation. At the time of the accident, the pilot had recorded 7141 flying hours in his logbook , of which only 34 were in a seaplane.
As a result of the accident, Clipper Aviation changed the flight operations instructions and checklists , and since that day the seaplane station on the ground has also sent a radio confirmation to the pilot that the wheels have retracted.
A year and a half after the fatal accident, prosecutors brought charges against the pilot. He was sentenced in 2012 in the first instance for negligent homicide to nine months suspended prison sentence. The sentence was converted into a fine on appeal.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Imprint. clipper-aviation.de, accessed on January 14, 2014 .
- ^ Commercial register of the AG Stuttgart , HRB 361458
- ↑ About us. baltic-seaplane.de, accessed on November 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Where to find us. clipper-aviation.de, accessed on November 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Clipper Aviation website , accessed on November 11, 2017.
- ↑ Seaplane training. clipper-aviation.de, accessed on November 29, 2017 .
- ^ Seaplanes in Germany. clipper-aviation.de, May 18, 2016, accessed on August 24, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.soloy.com/8203soloy-mkii-turbine-206.html
- ↑ aerokurier - Two dead in an accident with a Cessna 206 from Clipper Aviation, 23 August 2009 ( Memento from 16 January 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kai von Appen: Airplane crash process - the forgotten landing gear . In: taz . taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH. January 5, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ↑ Investigation report. (pdf) In: bfu-web.de. Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation , January 28, 2011, p. 17 , accessed on January 14, 2014 .
- ^ Charges after an accident with a seaplane. In: shz.de . March 24, 2011, accessed January 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Pilot convicted after a seaplane accident in Hamburg. In: Austrian Wings - Austria's aviation magazine. January 17, 2012, accessed February 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Julia Jüttner: Trial of the seaplane accident: Flight to death . In: Spiegel Online . January 16, 2012 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 5, 2018]).
- ↑ mlo: Confession: Lighter penalty for unlucky pilot | shz.de . In: shz . ( shz.de [accessed on February 5, 2018]).
