BELGOROD STATE AIR ENTERPRISE: 166 Bogdan Khmelnitski St., Belgorod, Central Regions, 308209, Russia; Phone 7 (07222) 40205; Fax 7 (07222) 41300; Code BED; Year Founded 1995. BSAE is set up at Belgorod in 1995 to offer domestic and regional charter and scheduled passenger services. Petr I. Nuzhni is commander and he begins operations with a fleet that comprises 10 Yakovlev Yak-40s, 28 Antonov An-2 biplanes, and 13 Kamov Ka-26 helicopters.
BELL AIR, LTD.: New Zealand (1968-1997). A division of Bell Air Executive Air Travel, Ltd., Bell Air is formed at Whakatane, on the North Island’s Bay of Plenty, in 1968 to provide air taxi and charter services. Equipped with a Cessna 185, Chairman/Managing Director Graham R. Bell’s company also undertakes marine surveys of fish stocks in the South Pacific. Nonscheduled but regular services to Auckland commence in October 1979 followed by licensed scheduled flights in 1980.
In 1981, Bell’s 6-employee airline, which is now renamed Bell Air Intercity Commuter Airlines, Ltd., possesses a fleet comprising 1 Beech 99, 3 Cessna 172s, and an Aero Commander 500. Neither service nor fleet changes during the next decade.
Airline employment stands at 10 in 1992 and the fleet includes 1 Beech 99 and 1 Aero Commander 500.
Operations continue in 1993-1995 and, in 1996, the commuter division is merged back into Bell Air Executive Air Travel, Ltd., which name is now painted on the carrier’s lone scheduled Beech 99.
Scheduled services cease in 1997.
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