Det Norske Luftfartselskap
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| Founding: | 1933 |
| Operation stopped: | 1948 |
| Merged with: | SAS Scandinavian Airlines |
| Seat: | Oslo |
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| Aims: | National and international |
| Det Norske Luftfartselskap merged with SAS Scandinavian Airlines in 1948 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover. | |
Det Norske Luftfartsselskap (DNL) was Norway's national airline until 1948. The company was founded in 1933 and in the first few years only carried out feeder services to the then Oslo seaplane base " Gressholmen sjøflyhavn".
history
In 1935 the first own aircraft were purchased:
- a Junkers W 34 , which was registered in the Norwegian aviation register from June 1, 1935 and received the license plate LN-DAB. The aircraft was named Ternen and was used on a postal route between Oslo and Copenhagen (via Gothenburg).
- a slightly larger Junkers Ju 52 with the license plate LN-DAE, which was named Havørn .
- In 1936 another new Junkers 52 was purchased (LN-DAF), which was named Najaden .
In 1936 the DNL opened a summer route between Bergen and Tromsø with three flights a week and stopovers in Ålesund, Molde, Kristiansund, Trondheim, Brønnøysund, Sandnessjøen, Bodø, Narvik and Harstad. in summer another route was set up between Gressholmen and Oslo. After the company's first flight accident on June 16, 1936 near Lihesten in the Sognefjord , another Ju 52 was purchased just two weeks later, which was baptized with the name Falken . DNL carried out these coastal routes in the summer months from 1936 until the aircraft were confiscated by the German occupying forces on April 9, 1940.
Also in 1936 a joint transatlantic route was negotiated with Pan American World Airways . Pan American was to take over the New York - Reykjavík route with its clippers , DNL was to take over the Reykjavík-Bergen flights with a newly purchased Sikorsky S-43 (LN-DAG). The aircraft was named Valkyrien . This contract was broken by Pan American without justification, the DNL used the aircraft for a short time on the Oslo-Stockholm summer route, but it was later sold to France.
New beginning in 1946
After the Second World War, the company was re-established on July 2, 1946. The aircraft fleet at that time consisted of two pre-war Junkers, five Ju 52s taken over by the Air Force , two Douglas DC-3 / C-47s and two new Douglas DC-4 Skymasters . On August 1, 1948 DNL, Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) and AB Aerotransport were merged and have since formed the SAS Scandinavian Airlines .
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
Previously deployed aircraft
Incidents
- On June 16, 1936 a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m of the DNL ( aircraft registration LN-DAE ) was flown into the Lihesten mountain, near Hyllestad. The machine was on its way from the then sea airport Bergen-Sandviken to Tromsø . All seven people on board (four crew members, three passengers) were killed. This was the first fatal aviation accident in Norway.
- On May 22, 1946, the left engine of a Ju 52 / 3m2e of the DNL (LN-LAB) failed shortly after taking off from Oslo-Fornebu Airport . When trying a reverse curve it came to the stall , the machine grazed treetops and crashed into a house on the southern edge of the airport. All 12 occupants except one passenger were killed.
- On August 28, 1947, a Short Sandringham 6 of the DNL (LN-IAV) was flown at a height of just 290 meters on the flank of the 400-meter-high Kvammetind mountain, lying in the fog. The machine was on its way from the then sea airport Harstad / Narvik to Bodø . All 35 people on board (8 crew members, 27 passengers) were killed. This was the worst accident involving a Sandringham and at the time the worst fatal aviation accident in Norway.
- On October 2, 1948, a Sandringham 5 of the DNL (LN-IAW) had an accident while landing at the then sea airport Trondheim-Hommelvik. When landing in heavy seas and cross winds, there was a loss of control. 19 of the 45 occupants were killed (see also flight accident involving the Bukken Bruse flying boat) .
See also
literature
- Bjørn Bjørhovde and Erik Sturk (ill.): SAS fly gjennom tidene . History of DNL / SAS, Oslo 1997.
- Johan Nerdrum: Fugl Fønix , Gyldendal 1988, ISBN 82-05-16663-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident report Ju 52 LN-DAE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 25, 2018.
- ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 43 (English), December 1991, pp. 91/108.
- ^ Accident report Ju 52 LN-LAB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 7, 2017.
- ^ Accident report Sandringham LN-IAV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 25, 2018.
- ^ Accident report Sandringham LN-IAW , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 25, 2018.
