Romavia

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Romavia is a Romanian state airline which operates state and ministerial flights throughout the world for the Romanian state. The airline is owned 100% by the Romanian state. It has carried numerous Romanian state chiefs and ministers.

1 Code Data
2 Fleet
- 2.1 Formerly used aircraft
3 Incidents and accidents
4 2006 News
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: WQ
ICAO Code: RMV
Callsign: AEROMAVIA ^[1]

[edit] Fleet

The Romavia fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006):

1 Antonov An-26
1 Boeing 707-320C - (YR-ABB)
1 Bae 146-200 - (YR-BEA)^[2]
3 ROMBAC 1-11-560 - (YR-BRE, YR-BRH, YR-BRI)

[edit] Formerly used aircraft

Il-18 - (YR-IMM, YR-IMZ)
AN-24 - (YR-AMR crashed)

[edit] Incidents and accidents

The worst disaster in Romavia history occurred on 13 December 1995 when Antonov AN-24 (YR-AMR) operating an international non-scheduled passenger flight crashed shortly after taking off from Verona, because of an overload of nearly 3 tons of ice on its wings. There were no survivors.

[edit] 2006 News

Romavia announced that they will buy the two Airbus A310 from TAROM, Romania's national airline, and it will pay the required maintenance for them, maintenance that will be performed at an authorized foreign base. Presently, TAROM's two A310 need D-checks. One aircraft will become the official presidential airplane, replacing the aging Boeing 707, used since 1974, while the other one will be used for the transport of the Romanian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as for other official missions.