Rotor flight
| Rotorflug Aircervices GmbH & Co. KGaA | |
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| IATA code : | - |
| ICAO code : | - |
| Call sign : | - |
| Founding: | 1972 |
| Seat: |
Goettingen , Germany
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| Operational bases: |
9 (see locations) |
| Company form: | GmbH & Co. KGaA |
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| Number of employees: | 37 (2011) |
| Profit: | € 5.0 million (2010) |
| Fleet size: | 25th |
| Aims: | individually |
| Website: | www.rotorflug.com |
Rotorflug is a German airline based in Göttingen in Lower Saxony (before April 2019 in Friedrichsdorf in Hesse ). According to the company's website (as of June 9, 2020), the company headquarters and the technical site are still in Friedrichsdorf. She was a member of the German Helicopter Association.
history
Rotorflug was founded in 1972. From 1993 to 2019, in cooperation with Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe , she operated an intensive care transport helicopter at the Südstadt-Klinikum in Rostock , which was operational 24 hours a day. In 2009 a subsidiary called rotorflug helicopters SL was founded on Mallorca .
Services
From its stations, Rotorflug mainly conducts work flights such as surveillance flights on high-voltage lines and pipelines as well as charter flights .
You can also purchase a private pilot license (PPL-H) for the helicopter from Rotorflug . The helicopters are maintained in the Friedrichsdorf shipyard , which is also approved as an AgustaWestland Service Center.
In October 2019, Rotorflug filed for insolvency, and an insolvency administrator has been appointed since October 24, 2019.
Locations
The 9 German locations of Rotorflug |
Germany
- Friedrichsdorf (headquarters)
- Diepholz Airfield
- Egelsbach airfield
- Kiel airport
- Koblenz-Winningen Airport
- Kaiserslautern (sales office)
- Walls
- Rostock
Spain
fleet
As of August 2019, the Rotorflug fleet consists of 24 helicopters :
| Helicopter type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| AgustaWestland AW109A Mk II | 2 | 6th | ||
| Bell 206B-3 | 9 | 4th | ||
| Bell 206L-3 LongRanger III | 1 | 6th | ||
| Bölkow Bo 105 | 2 | 4th | ||
| Eurocopter AS332 C1 | 1 | Transport helicopter | - | |
| Eurocopter AS 365 N - N2 | 2 | Intensive care transport helicopter | ||
| Robinson R22 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Robinson R44 | 6th | 3 | ||
| total | 25th | - |
Incidents
- On August 25, 2019, a Bell 206L-3 LongRanger ( aircraft registration D-HOTT ) helicopter crashed on Mallorca after colliding with an ultralight aircraft near the city of Inca , killing a total of 7 people.
See also
Web links
- Rotorflug website (German, English)
- Photos of the rotor flight on Flugzeugbilder.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint. Rotor flight, accessed June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Extract from the commercial register ›Lower Saxony› Göttingen ›R› Rotorflug-GmbH. online-handelsregister.de, accessed on June 8, 2020 .
- ↑ rotorflug.com, locations , accessed June 9, 2020.
- ↑ dhv-org.de - company members ( memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on June 8, 2020
- ↑ rotorflug.com - Services accessed on April 6, 2017
- ↑ http://www.insolvenzverwaltungen.de/aktuelles/karina-schwarz-zur-vorl-sachwalterin-der-rotorflug-gmbh-rotorflug-airservices-gmbh-co-kgaa-bestellt/
- ↑ a b rotorflug.com - Fleet accessed on April 6, 2017
- ^ Accident report Bell 206L-3 LongRanger III D-HOTT . In: Aviation Safety Network Wikibase . Accessed August 26, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 51.5 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 57.8" E