Bergen Aviation
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| Founded | 1981 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 1986 | ||||||
| Fleet size | 1 | ||||||
Parent company | Vesta (50%) Vestlandsreiser (20%) | ||||||
| Headquarters | Bergen, Norway | ||||||
A/S Bergen Aviation was a Norwegian airline that never operated any scheduled flights. Based in Bergen and established in 1981, it operated 2 Piper Cheyenne 2 turboprop for charter. It was originally established by the Bird Technology Group and was acquired by As Nevi in the Vestagroup in 1983. This was a time when SAS did not service Bergen well except Oslo and Copenhagen further adding to Flesland's decline as an important airport.
Later it signed an agreement to fly charter flights with Vestlandsreiser in 1986. It had also made an unsuccessful attempt to receive concession to operate domestic scheduled flights between Oslo Airport, Fornebu and Bergen Airport, Flesland. The airline bought 2 Sud Aviation Caravelle, but never received permission to operate. One Caravelle was severely damaged under take-off at Arlanda Airport in 1986 and left there for various kind of training for several years. The crash saved Bergen Aviation financially.
The company's largest owners in 1986 were Vesta and Vestlandsreiser.
History
Bergen Aviation was originally established in 1981. In 1986 fifty percent of Bergen Aviation was owned by the Vesta Group, twenty percent was owned by Vestlandreiser, and the rest was owned by various companies based in Bergen.
On 10 February, Bergen Aviation announced that they had applied the
The airline sent an application to register the Caravelle in April, but the application was cancelled later in the month, and the aircraft was subsequently registered in Sweden.[7] By June the airline had still not received permission to operate, causing problems for Vestlandsreiser, who had to make last-minute leases of aircraft, and had to terminate all flights from Stavanger.[8]
References
- Aftenposten Aften(in Norwegian). 10 February 1986. p. 1.
- ^ a b "Vestlandsreiser satser på Bergen Aviation" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 30 January 1986.
- ^ "Vestlandsreiser har likviditetsproblemer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 1 April 1986.
- ^ "Privat flyrute mellom Bergen og Oslo" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 10 February 1986.
- Aftenposten Aften(in Norwegian). p. 60.
- ^ "Fremskrittspartiets Ungdoms landsmøte" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 16 February 1986.
- ^ Hagby, Kay (1998). Fra Nielsen & Winther til Boeing 747 (in Norwegian). Drammen: Hagby. p. 298.
- ^ "Vestlandsreiser avlyser Syden-turer fra Sola" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 5 June 1986.
