Zimex Aviation

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Zimex Aviation Ltd.
HB-ALL ATR-72-202F
IATA code : XM
ICAO code : IMX
Call sign : ZIMEX
Founding: 1969
Seat: Glattbrugg , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Home airport : Zurich
Company form: Ltd.
Management: Daniele Cereghetti management
Fleet size: 25th
Aims: worldwide
Website: www.zimex.ch

Zimex Aviation is a Swiss airline based in Glattbrugg at Zurich Airport .

history

The airline was founded in 1969. In 2010, Zimex Aviation was the first airline worldwide to receive the new de Havilland Canada DHC-6 series 400. In April 2016, two ATR 72-200Fs joined the fleet, while an ATR 42-500 followed on December 4, 2018 .

After SkyWork Airlines went bankrupt , Zimex took over Swisscoy's supply flights . Twice a week she flies troops and equipment from Basel to Pristina and back; every other week with a stop in Sarajevo .

Destinations

The airline flies primarily in North Africa and the Middle East for non-governmental organizations , aid organizations and oil companies . For Nightexpress , Zimex flew express cargo flights from Maastricht to Coventry .

fleet

HB-ALL ATR72-202F approaching Zurich Airport
HB-ALL ATR72-202F at Zurich Airport
A Lockheed L-100 Hercules (HB-ILG) from Zimex Aviation

As of January 2019, the Zimex Aviation fleet consists of 26 aircraft:

Aircraft type number ordered Seats Remarks
Passenger planes
ATR 42-500 01 48
Beechcraft 1900 D 01 19th
DHC- 6-300 12 19th
DHC-6 -400 02 19th
Pilatus PC-6 06th 07th
Cargo planes
ATR 72-202F 03 no
ATR 72-500F 01
ATR 42-320 2
total 26th

Incidents

  • On October 14, 1987, a Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules of Zimex Aviation ( aircraft registration HB-ILF ) was shot down 40 kilometers west of the take-off airport in Kuito ( Angola ) during the Angola Civil War . The machine was on the road on behalf of the ICRC . All 6 occupants, 4 crew members and 2 passengers, were killed. Two people were also killed on the ground.

See also

Web links

Commons : Zimex Aviation  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Switzerland's Zimex Aviation adds maiden ATR42-500. In: ch-aviation. ch-aviation GmbH, December 13, 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ NZZ am Sonntag : New solution for Swisscoy flights, October 28, 2018, p. 10
  3. ↑ About us. In: zimex.com. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Fleet. In: zimex.com. Accessed August 31, 2018 .
  5. ^ Accident report L-100-30 Hercules HB-ILF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 8, 2020.
  6. ↑ Swiss Safety Investigation Board : Accident Report No. 1987 / A 26 1366
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