- Romavia
Infobox Airline
airline=Romavia
logo=Romavia.jpg
logo_size=150px
IATA=WQ
ICAO=RMV
callsign=AEROMAVIA
parent=
founded=3 April 1991
headquarters=Bucharest ,Romania
key_people=
hubs=Henri Coandă International Airport
focus_cities=
frequent_flyer programme=
lounge=
alliance=
fleet_size=5
destinations=5
website= http://www.romavia.roRomavia (Romanian Aviation Company) is an
airline based inBucharest ,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 isHenri Coandă International Airport ,Bucharest Flight International 12-18 April 2005] .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) .As of
March 2007 , the company has taken delivery of a secondBAe 146-200 aircraft (registration YR-BEB) and it launched on April 23 four scheduled destinations from its homebaseBucharest OTP :Cluj Napoca andTel Aviv .Destinations
*
Israel
**Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion International Airport )
*Romania
**Bucharest (Henri Coandă International Airport )
*Italy
**Perugia (Umbria International Airport )Incidents and accidents
The worst disaster in Romavia history occurred on
13 December 1995 whenAntonov An-24 (YR-AMR), operating an international non-scheduled passenger flight, crashed shortly after taking off fromVerona , because of an overload of nearly 3 tons of ice on its wings. There were no survivors. Fact|date=February 2007On
22 April 2008 one of the two RomaviaBAe 146-200 that was flying forCarpatair (YR-BEB), coming fromTimişoara , skidded when landing atOtopeni International Airport . All the 73 passengers were safely evacuated. At the time of the incident the weather was very bad at Bucharest. [http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=17529 Aviation-Safety.Net WikiBase Entry about the incident.]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 (atAugust 2008 ) [Flight International , 3-9 October 2006] :*1
Antonov An-26
*1 Boeing 707-320C - (YR-ABB - the presidential plane)
*2 Bae 146-200 - (YR-BEA, YR-BEB)
*2ROMBAC 1-11 -560 - (YR-BRE, YR-BRI)
*3 SA365 Dauphin - (201, 202, 203)Formerly used aircraft
*
Ilyushin Il-18 - (YR-IMM, YR-IMZ)
*Antonov An-24 - (YR-AMR crashed)As of
3 June 2008 , the average age of the Romavia fleet is 14.8 years ( [http://www.airfleets.net/ageflotte/Romavia.htm] ).Gallery
;The ROMBAC 1-11 YR-BRE plane
References
External links
* [http://www.romavia.ro Romavia]
* [http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?front=yes&s=1&keywords=romavia Photos on airliners.net]
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