Bin Air

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Bin Air
Bin Air logo.png
IATA ICAO Callsign
- BID[1] BINAIR[2]
Founded1996[2]
HubsEssen/Mülheim Airport
Fleet size2 (+2 in Maintenance)
DestinationsCargo & Passenger Charters
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Websitebinair.eu

BinAir Aero Service GmbH[3] is [4] a German charter airline headquartered in Munich and based out of Essen/Mülheim Airport specializing in ad hoc freight services across Europe.

History[]

The airline was founded in 1996.

The European Union warned the airline in 2011 to improve its safety or face inclusion in the EU no-flight blacklist of banned airlines.[5][6]

As of 29 October 2018, Bin Air's air operator's certificate has been revoked by the Luftfahrtbundesamt forcing the airline to cease all operations.[7][4] It eventually regained it's license in December 2020.

Fleet[]

Bin Air Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner

As of January 2021, the BinAir Fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[8]

Bin Air fleet
Aircraft In service Notes
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner 4 2 Flying Metro 23 and 2 Metro III
Total 4

Accidents and incidents[]

  • On 7 March 2013, a Bin Air metroliner was responsible for the closure of Dublin Airport's main runway for around 35 minutes when its forward retracting nose wheel collapsed during landing.[10][11][12]

References[]

  1. ^ Bin Air code data at planespotters.net
  2. ^ a b rzjets.net
  3. ^ "List of Air Carriers licensed by the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (current Operating Licences), Version: October 27, 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  4. ^ a b aerotelegraph.com - Deutsche Charterairline Bin Air verliert Lizenz (German) 2 November 2018
  5. ^ EU warns German, Spanish airlines over safety Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Irish Independent retrieved 5/5/2011.
  6. ^ see points 15 and 16, official journal of the European Union 20-04-2011 accessed 5-5-2011.
  7. ^ lba.de - List of Air Carriers licensed by the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (current Operating Licences), Version:October 29, 2018 (German) 29 October 2018
  8. ^ "Bin Air fleet". Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  9. ^ "Accident: BinAir SW4 at Stuttgart on Jan 19th 2010, right main gear collapsed on landing". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
  10. ^ "Flights resume at Dublin Airport after small cargo plane damaged on landing". RTÉ News, Ireland. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  11. ^ "Photo: Crashed Metroliner at Dublin Airport". @MMcKCiara Ciara Underwood. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  12. ^ Kapps, Sebastien. "Accident: Bin Air are rubbish according to Dublin crash witnesses". Simon Hradecky.

External links[]

Media related to BinAir at Wikimedia Commons

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