Transavia flight
| Transavia flight | |
|---|---|
| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | unknown |
| Call sign : | TRANSAVIA |
| Founding: | 1955 (as KHD) |
| Operation stopped: | 1959 |
| Seat: | Dusseldorf, Germany
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| Home airport : | Dusseldorf Airport |
| Management: | P. Lauxen |
| Fleet size: | 7th |
| Aims: | Mediterranean area , Canary Islands |
| Transavia Flug ceased operations in 1959. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Transavia Flug ( Trans-Avia on the outside ) was a short-lived West German charter airline that ceased operations in early 1959. The company based at Düsseldorf Airport was originally founded in 1955 as the Karl Herfurtner (KHD) air shipping company.
history
Karl Herfurtner air shipping company
The Düsseldorf hotel owner Karl Herfurtner had one in 1931 Omnibus established undertakings incinerating or whose clients before the Second World War, the Wuppertal tour operator Dr. Tigges belonged. After the end of the war, he resumed the collaboration with this tour operator and again led bus trips for Dr. Tigges through.
When the Allied Control Council allowed German air transport companies to start operating in the spring of 1955, Herfurtner decided to found the Karl Herfurtner air shipping company in order to also offer package holidaymakers to Dr. To be able to carry Tigges on IT charter flights . For this purpose, at the end of 1955, he initially acquired three Vickers 610 Viking 1Bs from the British airlines BEA (2) and Eagle Aviation (1). Flight operations began in February 1956. Between March and July 1957, another machine of this type was purchased from the British companies First Air Trading and Eagle Aviation as well as from the German Aero Express . All six aircraft bore the lettering “Dr. Tigges trips ” on the hull and were operated exclusively for this tour operator. The first of two Douglas DC-4s (former Douglas C-54s ) was taken over by Northwest Airlines in September 1957 . Both machines were unlike the Vikings no hull inscription, but wore only the letters KHD (for K arl H erfurtner D üsseldorf) on the vertical tail .
Transavia flight
After the crash of a KHD airplane on November 3, 1957 in Düsseldorf, in which his daughter was also killed, Karl Herfurtner ended his aviation involvement in the same month. As a result of the KHD closure, Dr. Tigges transport capacities , so that this tour operator bought the airline together with its six remaining planes on December 9, 1957 and renamed it Transavia Flug GmbH . After the change of ownership, flight operations continued under the new brand name Trans-Avia . A second Douglas DC-4 added to the fleet on May 24, 1958. The company suffered considerable losses in the course of 1958, so that Transavia Flug GmbH had to file for bankruptcy on January 10, 1959 and cease flight operations.
fleet
- Douglas DC-4 (operated by KHD and Trans-Avia )
- Vickers Viking (operated by KHD and Trans-Avia )
In the spring of 1959, the Trans-Avia fleet consisted of two Douglas DC-4s ( license plates : D-ANUK and D-ADAL ) and five Vickers Viking (license plates: D-AEDA, D-AEDO, D-AFIX, D-AGAD and D-AHUF ).
Incidents
- On September 29, 1957, a Vickers Viking 1B ( aircraft registration : D-ADEL ) of the KHD rolled over the end of the runway while landing at Son Bonet airfield on Mallorca and was irreparably damaged.
- On November 3, 1957, a Douglas DC-4 (C-54A) (registration: D-ALAF ) of the KHD had an accident after taking off from Düsseldorf Airport . Seven of the ten occupants and one person on the ground were killed in the accident; two other people on the ground were seriously injured (see plane crash in Düsseldorf ) .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Der Spiegel, edition 45/1955
- ↑ a b c Save-a-Viking, The Vickers Viking in action with German airlines ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 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.
- ↑ airframes.org: Douglas DC-4 D-ALAF
- ^ Photo of the crashed KHD Douglas DC-4 D-ALAF
- ^ Flight International, November 28, 1958
- ↑ a b History of LTU Aircraft, Douglas DC-4 10365/96
- ↑ Aerobernie: Fleet List KHD
- ↑ Aerobernie: Fleet List of Trans Avia
- ^ Accident report Viking 1B D-ADEL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2017.
- ^ Accident report DC-4 D-ALAF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2017.
