Ostermanair-Sweden
| Ostermanair-Sweden | |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | CG |
| Call sign : | (unknown) |
| Founding: | 1962 |
| Operation stopped: | 1965 |
| Seat: |
Stockholm , Sweden
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| Home airport : | Stockholm / Bromma Airport |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | Mediterranean area , Canary Islands |
| Ostermanair-Sweden ceased operations in 1965. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Ostermanair-Sweden (officially Osterman Air Charter AB , originally Svea-Flyg ) was a Swedish charter airline based at Stockholm / Bromma Airport . At the end of 1965 the company took part in the founding of the Danish airline Internord Aviation A / S and ceased operations.
history
Ostermanair-Sweden was founded at the end of 1962 under the name Svea-Flyg by the entrepreneur and pilot Göte Rosén in Stockholm . Operations began in May 1963 with a Douglas DC-6 leased from Hans Osterman AB . Svea-Flyg carried out IT charter traffic from Stockholm / Bromma airport for Swedish tour operators in the Mediterranean region . The majority stake in Svea-Flyg was held by John Lennart Osterman through his Hans Osterman AB . Lennart Osterman already owned several aviation companies , including Ostermans Aero AB, which was founded in 1943, and the general agencies of the US manufacturers Bell Helicopter and Cessna in Sweden.
In the summer of 1963, Lennart Osterman acquired three Douglas DC-7s from the US Overseas National Airways ( ONA ). Immediately after delivery, the first two machines were leased to the Danish airline Flying Enterprise via Svea-Flyg from October and December 1963, respectively . Svea-Flyg started using the third Douglas DC-7 in April 1964. At the same time, Osterman paid off the other shareholders and took over the company entirely. After the takeover, the company was renamed Osterman Air Charter AB . The company continued the charter flight operations and appeared under the brand name Ostermanair-Sweden .
In early 1965, the company put two additional Douglas DC-7s into service. At the same time, the Danish Flying Enterprise surprisingly filed for bankruptcy and returned its two leased aircraft. Ostermanair-Sweden thus had five instead of three machines, which they could only use to a limited extent during the 1965 summer season. The company wanted to work with the Danish Aero-Nord to operate the aircraft more efficiently.
On 30 November 1965 the two companies entered into a collaboration that the establishment of the joint venture Inter Nord Aviation A / S led. The Copenhagen- based successor company started operations on January 1, 1966. At the same time, Ostermanair-Sweden stopped all charter services on December 31, 1965 and ceded its contracts of carriage to Internord Aviation . The Osterman charter AB remained the owner of the aircraft, then by the Inter North were used.
On October 1, 1966, Osterman Air Charter AB was renamed Internord Aviation AB based on its Danish subsidiary . A Douglas DC-7 returned by the Danish Internord in April 1967 was used by the Swedish parent company in wet lease for the International Red Cross on aid flights in Africa until the end of March 1969.
fleet
- Douglas DC-6 (operated until March 1965, temporarily leased to other companies)
- Douglas DC-7
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charterflyg in Scandinavia
- ↑ Amphitrite: One of the oldest sailing yachts in the world, Vita of John Lennart Osterman
- ↑ Flight International, April 2, 1964 (PDF)
- ↑ Angle Fire, Osterman charter
- ↑ Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
- ↑ Flight International, December 23, 1965 (PDF)
- ↑ Flight International, April 13, 1967 (PDF)
- ^ Douglas DC-7, SE-CNE
