Nuremberg Air Service
| Nuremberg Air Service | |
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| IATA code : | NS |
| ICAO code : | NFD |
| Call sign : | FLAMINGO |
| Founding: | 1974 |
| Operation stopped: | 1992 |
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Nuremberg , Germany
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| Turnstile : | |
| Home airport : | Nuremberg Airport |
| Company form: | AG |
| IATA prefix code : | NS |
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| Fleet size: | 21st |
| Aims: | National and continental |
| Nürnberger Flugdienst stopped operations in 1992. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
The Nürnberger Flugdienst ( NFD ) was a regional airline based in Nuremberg , which was founded in 1974 by Hans Rudolf Wöhrl .
history
Wöhrl, who had been flying privately since the 1960s, began flight operations in 1975 with a Piper Seneca , which was followed by several Cessna 414s . After the two accidents in 1977, the company was reorganized in the summer of 1979 and two King Air 200s were purchased so that not only air taxi services , but also a. Ambulance and cargo flights could also be offered. In the spring of 1980 an application was made for a scheduled flight license ; However, you were only allowed to operate air transport on demand at fixed departure times between Nuremberg and Paris Le Bourget twice a day. The European Regional Airlines Association ERA u. a. with members NFD, Crossair and Tyrolean Airways . The NFD acquired two Metroliner IIs in 1981 and now flew to Charles de Gaulle . Further goals were u. a. Hanover , Saarbrücken and Milan Linate . At the end of 1982 3 Metroliner III were ordered and a maintenance company was taken over. Among the NFD's charter customers was the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss .
In 1985 the company was awarded the contract for the Hof - Bayreuth - Frankfurt route in Upper Franconia , on which a Dornier 228 was used. After France no longer wanted to accept the NFD's air traffic at fixed departure times , Transport Minister Werner Dollinger made the NFD the second German scheduled airline after Lufthansa in 1985 . The meanwhile nine Metroliners could no longer meet the demand and in a buyers' association with Reise- und Industrieflug RFG , a decision was made in favor of the new ATR 42 , and later also the ATR 72 . As a result of the crash in February 1988, all Metroliners were given up and the NFD was converted into NFD Luftverkehrs AG . In 1989 the British Air Europe took over 49% of the shares, 26.1% were held by Karstadt AG . From the fall of 1989, Air Europe operated Boeing 757s and chartered flights for tourism providers. After Air Europe went bankrupt in March 1991, its shares could be bought back by NFD management. At the beginning of 1992, RFG took over all the shares in NFD, which were absorbed by Eurowings the following year .
Former routes (1985)
- Nuremberg to (and back): Bremen , Hanover , Amsterdam , Paris CDG , Nice , Milan Linate
- Hanover to (and back): Amsterdam, Brussels
- Münster to (and back): Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main
fleet
Boeing 757 of Air Europe operated by the NFD
Incidents
- After a workshop flight, a Cessna 414 had to be written off in 1977 .
- On April 14, 1977 the Cessna 414 D-INFD crashed on the flight from Karlsruhe to Nuremberg near Raitersaich in a snow storm, 6 people died.
- On February 8, 1988, the Nürnberger Flugdienst-Flug 108 , a Metroliner III , crashed on the flight from Hanover to Düsseldorf near Kettwig as a result of a lightning strike and subsequent failure of all electrical systems. All 21 inmates died.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fleet of the Nuremberg flight service on Airfleets.net
- ↑ Wikibase entry on the accident of April 14, 1977 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ^ Report on the investigation of the aircraft accident with the aircraft SA 227-AC, Metro 111, D-CABB, on February 8, 1988 near Kettwig, AZ .: 1 X 0001/88. (PDF; 2.13 MB) (No longer available online.) Commission of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board at the Federal Aviation Office, November 29, 2005, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on December 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
