Stuttgart flight service

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Stuttgarter Flugdienst GmbH
Logo of the Stuttgart flight service
Embraer Legacy 600 of the Stuttgart flight service
IATA code : -
ICAO code : FFD
Call sign : FIRST FLIGHT
Founding: 1956
Operation stopped: 2019
Seat: Stuttgart , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Home airport : Stuttgart Airport
Company form: GmbH
Number of employees: 10 (May 2019)
Fleet size: 2
Aims: National and international
Website: www.sfd-aviation.com
Stuttgarter Flugdienst GmbH ceased operations in 2019. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

The Stuttgarter Flugdienst (also SFD Aviation ) was a German charter airline based in Stuttgart and based at Stuttgart Airport .

history

The Stuttgart flight service, founded in 1956, initially carried out sightseeing flights and dealt with aerial photographs. The business aviation initially did not matter. In the 1960s, a Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander was procured to cover this developing area. Contact Air was founded in 1974 and the first jets in the form of aircraft types from the Learjet series and a Dassault Falcon 10 followed . During the 1980s, the jet fleet was replaced by more efficient turbo props from the BAe Jetstream and Beechcraft King Air series.

Until the bankruptcy, SFD belonged to the Eheim group of companies, as did Contact Air Technik. When Contact Air developed into a scheduled airline in the 1990s, SFD spun off as an independent charter airline in order to serve the revitalized business and executive charter market. The SFD had filed for bankruptcy in May 2019.

In August 2019, the charter airline Atlas Air Service took over the business operations and employees of the insolvent SFD.

Services

SFD mainly performed charter flights and aircraft maintenance . At Stuttgart Airport, the SFD was located in the General Aviation area, where it had its own technology base with "line maintenance" in accordance with Part-145.

fleet

Cessna Citation Excel of the Stuttgart flight service

As of October 2018, the fleet of the Stuttgarter Flugdienst consisted of only two aircraft (previously twelve), which, however, were not owned by SFD, but belonged to other companies outside of aviation:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
Cessna Citation CJ3 + 1 6th
Cessna Citation Encore 1 8th
total 2 -

See also

Web links

Commons : Stuttgarter Flugdienst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Stuttgarter Flugdienst is insolvent - Kreis - Eßlinger Zeitung. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  2. https://www.airliners.de/stuttgarter-flugdienst-eigentuemer/51680
  3. sfd-aviation.com - Retrieved from the SFD on April 10, 2017
  4. sfd.eu - News ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved November 19, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sfd.eu
  5. http://www.sfd-aviation.com/flotte.html
  6. sfd-aviation.com - Fleet accessed on April 10, 2017