VHM school and charter flight
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| IATA code : | |
| ICAO code : | VHM |
| Call sign : | EARLY BIRD |
| Founding: | 1976 |
| Operation stopped: | 2011 |
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Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany
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| Home airport : | Essen / Mülheim |
| Company form: | GmbH & Co. KG |
| Number of employees: | more than 70 |
| Fleet size: | 24 |
| Aims: | Europe |
| VHM school and charter flight ceased operations in 2011. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
VHM school and charter flight was a German airline based in Mülheim an der Ruhr . The airline was based at the Essen / Mülheim airfield. Together with the subsidiary, which had its headquarters at Damme airfield , VHM operated a business and self-pilot charter service and leased helicopters. Furthermore, pilots were trained and sightseeing flights were undertaken.
The company filed for bankruptcy on January 24, 2011. Flight operations ceased on June 30, 2011.
history
The company VHM was founded in 1976 by Wolfgang Vautz and two other business partners. Soon after, it started flight operations, at that time with three aircraft and three employees. The two other shareholders were paid out. Since then, VHM has been managed by Wolfgang Vautz alone and, at its peak in 2009, employed around ten permanent employees and around 70 freelance workers. The core business was the business charter segment. VHM operated a King Air B200 and three Citation Jets in various sizes. As part of the bankruptcy filed in January 2011, no investor could be found for the over-indebted company. The company was wound up, flight operations ceased on June 30, 2011 and the aircraft owned by the company were sold.
Incidents
In the early evening hours of November 24, 2006, VHM's Piper Seneca (D-GIGI) chartered to a self-pilot fell onto the A52 near Essen and hit a car. The machine crashed and 7 people were injured, 2 of them seriously. The aircraft was not sufficiently refueled by the pilot and crashed due to lack of fuel.
fleet
As of November 2009 the fleet of the VHM school and charter flight consisted of 19 aircraft and 2 hot air balloons and the VHM-Damme five aircraft.
- 1 Beechcraft King Air B200
- 3 Cessna 152
- 3 Cessna 172 Skyhawk
- 1 Cessna Citation CJ1
- 1 Cessna Citation CJ2
- 1 Cessna Citation CJ2 +
- 1 Cessna Citation CJ3
- 1 Cessna Citation Sovereign
- 2 Diamond DA42
- 1 Enstrom F28 Falcon
- 1 Eurocopter EC 120 Colibri
- 2 hot air balloons
- 1 Piper PA-28-181 Archer III
- 2 Socata TB 20 Trinidad
- VHM dams
- 1 Cessna 150
- 1 Cessna 172 Skyhawk
- 1 Eurostar EV97
- 1 Ikarus C42
- 1 Robin DR 400
See also
Web links
- VHM Mülheim ( Memento from July 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Photos of the VHM school and charter flight on airliners.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Insolvency of the VHM company makes the Essen-Mülheim airport difficult. on: derwesten.de , January 24, 2011 (accessed January 30, 2011)
- ↑ VHM: VHM school and charter flight fleet ( Memento from March 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) August 23, 2009.
