Sylt Air

Sylt Air GmbH is an airline based at Sylt-Ost, Germany, operating chartered and scheduled flights from Sylt Airport.[1]

Sylt Air
IATA ICAO Callsign
7E AWU SYLT-AIR
Founded1963
Operating basesSylt Airport
Fleet size10
Destinations2
Parent companySylt-Air GmbH
HeadquartersTinnum, Germany
Websitesyltair.de

History

The company was founded in 1963 by Ulrich Schreiber as Friesenflug. From 1978 until 1998 the Polish pilot Kasimir Samp and his wife Ursula owned the company. In 1998, it was sold to Aeroline.[2] Celebrities like playboy Günter Sachs, actor Charles Brauer, comedian Karl Dall, box-champion Dariusz Michalczewski or designer Brigitte Stohlmann frequently were on board on the scheduled flights from Hamburg.[3][4][5]

Destinations

Sylt Air operates summer seasonal scheduled flights between Sylt Airport and Hamburg Airport. It also offers scenic flights around Sylt and the Frisian Islands as well as other charter operations.[6] During the summer time 2023 a connection to Dortmund is going to be established by a new Cessna Caravan turboprop plane.

Fleet
Sylt Air Cessna CitationJet 525

As of November 2020, the Sylt air fleet includes:[6]

Sylt Air fleet
Aircraft Total Notes
Cessna 150 1
Cessna 182 1
Cessna 404 1
Cessna 421 1
Cessna 525A CitationJet CJ2+ 4
Partenavia P68B 2
Total 10

Former Friesenflug fleet: Cessna 182 (D-EGTD) Cessna 172 (D-EGAZ) Cessna 172 (D-EOTI) Cessna 207 (D-ECMB) Piper Seneca (D-GIWA)

References
  1. "Contact." Sylt Air. Retrieved on 14 March 2010.
  2. polot.net
  3. "Dariusz Michalczewski - der TIGER ist los auf Sylt". 15 February 2012.
  4. "Mit der Sonne kommt die Prominenz".
  5. "Polskie Lotnictwo Wojskowe - Polot".
  6. syltair.de - Charter retrieved 17 November 2020

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