ACM Air Charter is a German airline based at
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport
Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (German: ''Flughafen Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden'') is the international airport of Karlsruhe, the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, and also serves the spa town of Baden-Baden. It is the stat ...
. In addition to charter flights and aircraft management the airline operates the business aviation terminal and a maintenance facility at its homebase airport.
History
ACM Air Charter was founded in 1992 in Baden-Baden. One year later in 1993, flight operations commenced. In 1997 the airline moved its headquarters to
Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden Airport, where the company now also owns two hangars. It created a second business area with its maintenance department. In 1998 the airline received the approval for line and base maintenance. In the same year the first commercially approved
Bombardier Challenger 604
The Bombardier Challenger 600 series is a family of business jets developed by Canadair after a Bill Lear concept, and then produced from 1986 by its new owner, Bombardier Aerospace.
At the end of 1975, Canadair began funding the developmen ...
in Germany was put into service, enabling long-haul
charter flights
Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline).
Regulation
Charter – also called air taxi or ad hoc – flights ...
.
In 2008 the first
ultra-long range business jet was added to the fleet. The
Bombardier Global Express
The Bombardier Global Express is a large cabin, 6,000 nmi / 11,100 km range business jet designed and manufactured by Bombardier Aviation (formerly Bombardier Aerospace).
Announced in October 1991, it first flew on 13 October 1996, receiv ...
XRS allows nonstop transatlantic flights and flights to Asia. The licence to operate the first commercially registered
Dassault Falcon 7X
The Dassault Falcon 7X is a large-cabin, range business jet manufactured by Dassault Aviation, the second largest of its Dassault Falcon line. Launched at 2001 Paris Air Show, its first flight was on 5 May 2005 and it entered service on 15 Jun ...
in Germany was extended in 2010, adding another ultra-long range jet to the airline’s fleet.
In 2011, ACM Air Charter went into an agreement with Continuum Applied Technology for the implementation of the CORRIDOR Aviation Service Software, an application designed to automate all aspects of the complex maintenance of aircraft.
In 2014 ACM Air Charter received its second
Boeing BBJ 2, offering ultra-long haul flights with a modern and high-class business aircraft.
Due to the new Part-NCC regulation, which entered into force in 2016, ACM took over the operation of a non-commercial Embraer Phenom 300 in March 2017.
Fleet
As of November 2020, the fleet of ACM Air Charter consists of the following aircraft:
acma.aero - Flottenübersicht
(German) retrieved 17 November 2020
See also
* List of airlines of Germany
This is a list of current airlines of Germany.
Scheduled airlines
Charter airlines
Cargo airlines
See also
* Airline codes
* List of airports in Germany
* List of defunct airlines of Germany
* List of airlines of Europe
References
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References
External links
*
ACM Air Charter on Charterscanner.com
{{Airlines of Germany
Airlines of Germany
Airlines established in 1992