Rare & frequent Scandinavian charters!

September 19. 1985

If Maersk Air's Boeing 737-200s were quiet frequent visitors

in winters (OY-MBZ shown here), ScanBee's Convair 580 SE-IEY

has only made a couple of visits at Geneva, with the first one during March 1984. 

Dassault Falcon trijets with only 1 owner!

July 9. 1987

This view depicts well the main differences of cabin size and windows 

between the Dassault Falcon 900 (left) and its predecessor,

the Falcon 50 (right). At that time, Falcon 900 N900FJ (C/N 31) was

the demonstrator aircraft in the U.S.A during 1 year.

Only one common point between these 2 airframes, both have been operated

by only one owner since new. The Falcon 900 was registered N910JW

to S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. in 1988 and Falcon 50 CN-ANO

was delivered to the Morocco Government 31 years ago and both

are still in use today!

Twin Commuters!

July 1st. 1984

Founded in 1975 by Moritz Sutter, Crossair operated a

dozen Swearingen SA227 Metroliners II & III. HB-LLF,

a III model, is seen here begining taxi for another

commuter flight. At that time, Crossair knew some delay

with the delivery of its brand new SAAB 340As and had

to lease Fokker F-27 D-BAKU from german carrier WDL

and Fairchild FH-227 OO-DTA from belgian company

Delta Air Transport, seen here on the left.

In the background, privately owned DC-9-14 HB-IAA

and an EL-AL Boeing 767-258ER.

March 4. 1986

Crossair Swearingen SA-227AT Metro III HB-LLF again, this time

wearing the "new livery" of that time, with freshly delivered SAAB 340A

HB-AHI. The later replaced the first, with a few of  the Metroliners

transferred to small freight company CPS.

May 22. 1987

Operating a short time scheduled flight between Berlin and Geneva,

Berlin Regional was flying a small fleet of 2 UK registered BAe Jetstream 31s

including G-BRGN, seen here together with Crossair SAAB 340A HB-AHF

September 6. 1986

The sole ever Dornier 228 operated in Switzerland was this Sunshine

Aviation sample, based at Lugano. Still registered D-IAHG on this picture,

it appeared a few months later on the swiss register as HB-LPC. In the

background, Transair's CASA 212 Aviocar HB-LMH, one of two

operated by the company.

Unusual duets (bis)!

April 4 1986

Except of the Mauritanian Air Force samples, whose were performing

maintenance check by Transair, the Short SC-7 Skyvan was quiet a rare

visitor here and more in such livery! Pink Aviation's OE-FDL, based at Hohenems

airfield adorned several flashy liveries and was mostly used for paradropping duty. It

was lost in an accident just after take-off from its homebase in June 1995.

In the background, one of a pair of CASA 212 Aviocar operated by Geneva based

Transair, EL-AJF (ex HB-LNG) after returning from lease to Air Liberia. Both

Aviocars were later sold to Angola.

December 7. 1987

U.S.Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) used a large number

of Lockheed C-141B Starlifter, the stretched model of the original C-141A.

They were replaced from the mid-nineties by the Mc Donnell Douglas (now Boeing)

C-17 Globemaster III. On the right, 1944 built's Douglas DC-3C N64784 was based

in Switzerland for a few years from 1986 and is still privately owned in California today.

Big Swiss business jets!

August 31. 1986

On the left, the first large cabin aircraft in Petrolair's fleet was Boeing 737-2V6

HB-IEH. This private Geneva based company was later renamed

Privatair and is still in operation today. This Boeing 737 is still privately

used in the United States as N787WH. On the right, Mc Donnell Douglas

DC-9-14 HB-IEF, one of two operated by also Geneva based Aeroleasing (later

integrated in the TAG Aviation Group). It was the 15th DC-9 built and rolled-out of

the manufactory in 1966, delivered to Delta Airlines. It ended its carrier 40 years

later with mexican carrier Aerocalifornia.