Romavia

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Romavia
IATA
WQ		 ICAO
RMV		 Callsign
AEROMAVIA
Founded 3 April 1991
Hubs Henri Coandă International Airport
Fleet size 5
Destinations 5
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania
Key people
Website: http://www.romavia.ro

Romavia (Romanian Aviation Company) is an airline based in Bucharest, Romania. It is the second Romanian state-authorised airline operating VIP state and ministerial flights throughout the world for the Romanian state, as well as chartered and scheduled passenger and cargo services. Its main base is Henri Coandă International Airport, Bucharest [1].

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[edit] History

The airline was established on 3 April 1991 and started operations later in the same year. It is wholly owned by the Romanian government (Ministry of National Defense) [1].

As of March 2007, the company has taken delivery of a second BAe 146-200 aircraft (registration YR-BEB) and it launched on April 23 four scheduled destinations from its homebase Bucharest OTP: Cluj Napoca and Tel Aviv.

[edit] Destinations

Part of Romavia fleet at Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport
Part of Romavia fleet at Bucharest Henri Coandă Airport

[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.[citation needed]

On 22 April 2008 one of the two Romavia BAe 146-200 that was flying for Carpatair (YR-BEB), coming from Timişoara, skidded when landing at Otopeni International Airport. All the 73 passengers were safely evacuated. At the time of the incident the weather was very bad at Bucarest.[2]

[edit] Fleet

The company operates flights for the Romanian government (the aircraft wearing ROMANIA titles and the Romanian flag on the tailfin), as well as scheduled or charter flights using different planes (under ROMAVIA titles). The Romavia fleet includes the following aircraft (at April 2007) [3] :

[edit] Formerly used aircraft

As of 3 June 2008, the average age of the Romavia fleet is 14.8 years ([1]).

[edit] Gallery

The ROMBAC 1-11 YR-BRE plane

At Frankfurt am Main, Apr 1994.

At Luga/Malta, Jun 1998.

At Brussel, Feb 2005.

At Luxembourg, Apr 2005.

At Ferihegy / Budapest, Nov 2006.

At Ferihegy / Budapest, Nov 2006.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Flight International 12-18 April 2005
  2. ^ http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=17529 Aviation-Safety.Net WikiBase Entry about the incident.
  3. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006

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