Field Aviation
| FIELD AVIATION (Cologne) GmbH & Co. KG | |
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| IATA code : | |
| ICAO code : | FIE |
| Call sign : | |
| Founding: | 1985 |
| Operation stopped: | 1992 |
| Merged with: | WDL flight service |
| Seat: |
Cologne , Germany
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| Company form: | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Management: | T. Filkin |
| Number of employees: | 60 (1991) |
| Fleet size: | 6th |
| Aims: | Cargo flight |
| FIELD AVIATION (Cologne) GmbH & Co. KG merged with WDL Flugdienst in 1992 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover. | |
The Field Aviation that their existence as up to the last year FTG Air Service flight charter changed its name, was a German airline with headquarters in Cologne . It went on in 1991 in the WDL Flugdienst, today's WDL Aviation .
history
Field Aviation was founded in 1985 by Heinz Barth as part of his Finanz-Treuhand-Gesellschaft, or FTG for short, under the name FTG Air Service Flugcharter and was involved in business flights and parcel freight services, among other things.
In 1990, the company, which had previously operated as FTG Air Service Flugcharter, was renamed to Field Aviation, which is still based in Cologne. Field Aviation was active in cargo air traffic and finally merged with WDL Flugdienst, also based in Cologne, on September 30, 1991, and later formed WDL Aviation ; In the period that followed, Field Aviation within the WDL Group mainly took care of the maintenance of the Fokker F-27 fleet.
In the context of the rental and Paunsdorf Center affair involving the then Prime Minister of Saxony Kurt Biedenkopf , it became known in 2001 that the latter had used Heinz Barth flights a total of twelve times between 1991 and 1997; Biedenkopf had previously spoken to an investigative committee of the state parliament about two to three paid flights with the FTG. In nine cases the transport was carried out free of charge by FTG, in three other cases at Biedenkopf's invitation. The matter turned out to be problematic because in 1996, on the instructions of the Prime Minister, parts of the Saxon state authorities had moved into offices in the Paunsdorf Center in Leipzig built by his friend, the said FTG owner and building contractor Barth - this led to increased rents, which were criticized by the State Audit Office in 1996 had been.
fleet
The fleet documented for 1991 - before the merger with WDL Flugdienst - consisted of the following six machines:
| Aircraft type | number |
Aircraft registration serial number |
Remarks |
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| Fokker F-27-100 | 3 |
D-BAKA 10198 |
rented from WDL Flugdienst |
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D-BAKI 10102 |
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D-BAKO 10106 |
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| Fokker F-27-200 | 1 |
D-BAKU 10137 |
rented from WDL Flugdienst |
| Fokker F-27-600 | 2 |
D-AARS 10450 |
rented from LKA |
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D-AFTG 10433 |
In the years of its existence, machines of the types Swearingen Merlin IV , Cessna 404 and Cessna Citation I were also operated . In addition, at the end of 1991 three Tupolew Tu-134A were acquired by Vebeg , which the company then provided with Croatian aircraft registration numbers and had them repaired by Interflug personnel at Neuhardenberg airfield .
Incidents
- On February 24, 1990, an FTG's Fokker F-27-600 ( aircraft registration D-AELB ) suffered an engine failure on both sides and the right engine was torn off the wing. The crew had previously practiced stalling in the landing configuration as part of a training flight, whereupon the engines reacted with overheating and vibrations. The subsequent emergency landing in a field near Bergisch Gladbach, about 12 kilometers north of the starting airport Cologne / Bonn , was successful and the two-man crew managed to get to safety, but the machine burned out and had to be written off.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher, Antonio Härry, Ernst Sommer, Werner Wyder: jp airline-fleets international 91 . Bucher publications, Glattbrugg 1991, ISBN 3-85758-125-5 , p. 115 f . (English).
- ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher, Antonio Härry, Ernst Sommer, Werner Wyder: jp airline-fleets international 92 . Bucher & Co. Publications, Glattbrugg 1992, ISBN 3-85758-126-3 , pp. 604 (English).
- ↑ sales tax; Tax-free sales for aviation (§ 4 No. 2 UStG). Federal Ministry of Finance, January 18, 1993, IV A 3 - S 7155 a - 1/93, NWB / 1993. In: NWB database. January 18, 1993, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Flight Review . tape 39 , no. 1-6 . United Motor Publishers, 1994, p. 46 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Biedenkopf: Twelve free flights. In: Spiegel Online. June 6, 2001, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Saxony: Biedenkopf deeper and deeper in the swamp. In: Spiegel Online. June 9, 2001, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ End of the rental affair - start of the flight affair: allegations against Biedenkopf. In: n-tv. June 6, 2001, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ star: Biedenkopf flew for free with the company of his childhood friend Barth. In: press portal. June 6, 2001, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher, Antonio Härry, Ernst Sommer, Werner Wyder: jp airline-fleets international 88 . Bucher publications, Glattbrugg 1988, ISBN 3-85758-122-0 , p. 103 (English).
- ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher, Antonio Härry, Ernst Sommer, Werner Wyder: jp airline-fleets international 89 . Bucher publications, Glattbrugg 1989, ISBN 3-85758-123-9 , pp. 107 (English).
- ↑ Flight Review . tape 39 , no. 1-6 . United Motor Publishers, 1994, p. 42 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from the MPs Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, Andrea Lederer, Steffen Tippach, Gerhard Zwerenz, Dr. Gregor Gysi and the PDS group . Printed matter 13/3605, January 30, 1996 ( bundestag.de [PDF; accessed December 17, 2018]).
- ^ Accident report Fokker F-27 Friendship 600 D-AELB . In: Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved November 25, 2018.
