STRATOFREIGHT: United States (1947-1949). This irregular carrier is set up at Miami in late fall 1947 to operate passenger charter and inclusive tour flights. Revenue flights commence in December with a single Curtiss C-46 Commando.
Significantly overweight, the aircraft suffers engine trouble and ditches into the sea just after takeoff from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 7, 1949; there are no survivors. The tragedy leads to revocation of the company’s operating permit.
STREAMLINE AVIATION, LTD.: Office 12, Exeter Airport, Exeter, Devonshire, England, EX5 2BD, United Kingdom; Phone 44 (1392) 361 795; Fax 44 (1392) 360 424; Code SSW; Year Founded 1991. Streamline is established in 1991 to offer passenger and cargo charters to domestic and some regional destinations. Revenue flights commence with 3 owned Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirantes and 1 leased EMB-110P2 Bandeirante.
One each chartered Shorts 330 and Shorts 360 are added in 1992, but in light of the recessionary impact upon the charter business, are removed in 1993. Operations continue in 1994 as the Shorts 330 is returned to service.
Flights continue in 1995-1999, during which years Chairman/ CEO Bernard Haddigan adds two more Shorts 330s and a Pilatus-Britten-Norman PBN-2A Trislander.
While on departure from Paris (CDG) to Madrid on May 25,2000, an Air Liberte, S. A. MD-83, returning 154 Spanish football fans home from the European Cup Final, is involved in a runway incursion accident with a taxiing Streamline Aviation Shorts 360 freighter. Although no injuries are reported aboard the jetliner, its wing smashes into the cockpit of the turboprop, killing its copilot. The French aircraft is able to safely abort its takeoff.
In December, a Shorts 360F is acquired in a basic red and gray livery.
STREZHEVOYE AIRLINE (STREZHEVSKOE GOSU-DARTSVENNOE A/P): Strezhevoi Aeroport, Tomsk Region, West Siberian Zone ATD, 636762, Russia; Phone 7 (38259) 32059; Year Founded 1996. Strezhevoye Airline is established in 1996 to offer passenger and cargo services, both scheduled and charter, plus rotary-wing aerial contract work throughout Western Siberia. Vladimir Mikhailov is CEO and he begins flights with 2 Yak 42Ds, 5 Antonov An-2s, and 30 Mil Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters.
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