Business flight
| Wirtschaftsflug Rhein - Main company with limited liability | |
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| IATA code : | - |
| ICAO code : | WS |
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| Founding: | 1972 |
| Operation stopped: | 1982 |
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Offenbach am Main , Germany
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| Home airport : | Frankfurt am Main airport |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Management: | Heinz Dieter Hoppenstaedt |
| Number of employees: | 40 (1980) |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | international |
| Wirtschaftsflug Rhein - Main company with limited liability ceased operations in 1982. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Wirtschaftsflug , actually Wirtschaftsflug Rhein-Main Limited Liability Company , or WF for short , was a German airline based in Offenbach am Main .
history
Wirtschaftsflug was founded in 1972 by Heinz Dieter Hoppenstaedt. After starting operations with business and air taxi flights, IT charter flights followed in 1979 with an Aero Commander 690 and a Fairchild F-27 rented by WDL Aviation . In 1980, in cooperation with the newspaper Extra-Tip, flights from Kassel-Calden to various major European cities were offered.
At the beginning of 1980, Wirtschaftsflug planned to enter the cargo flight business. For this purpose, the use of three Lockheed L-100-30s was considered and a cooperation with German Cargo was agreed . The first of the three machines arrived in November 1981 and was to be used for cargo flights to Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
At the end of 1982, however, Wirtschaftsflug filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations.
fleet
When operations ceased in 1982, the Wirtschaftsflug fleet consisted of three aircraft:
The Lockheed L-100-30 was the only Lockheed L-100-30 ever registered in Germany. After it was sold, it last flew for Transafrik International until it was shot down by a rocket in Angola in February 1999 and crashed.
At the time of its existence, Wirtschaftsflug also operated aircraft of the following types:
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Common register portal of the countries (enter company name and checkboxes contain all keywords and activate Find deleted companies ), accessed on November 15, 2015
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 80
- ↑ a b Flightglobal Archive: Flight International July 26, 1980 (English), accessed on November 15, 2015
- ↑ Hessischer Landtag: Answer of the Minister for Economy and Technology to the inquiry of the Abg. Dr. Schlitzberger (SPD) concerning air tourism from the regional airport Kassel-Calden printed matter 9/2827 . Printed matter 9/3110, 9th electoral term, June 16, 1980, accessed on November 15, 2015
- ↑ From aviation. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. December 5, 1980, accessed on November 15, 2015 (Required to log in to access Wikipedia. To avoid this, search and call up articles on Google.).
- ↑ Flightglobal Archive: Flight International November 14, 1981 (English), accessed November 15, 2015
- ↑ a b Flightglobal Archive: Flight International April 2, 1983 (English), accessed November 15, 2015
