''Avioimpex'' was an

airline An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in wh ...

carrier from the

Republic of Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

(now North Macedonia), based in

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and List of cities in North Macedonia by population, largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Sk ...

. It operated both scheduled and charter services to and from

and

Ohrid Ohrid ( mk, Охрид ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the List of cities in North Macedonia, eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording ...

History

Avioimpex was established as Interimpex-Avioimpex in September 1992. The airline changed its name to Avioimpex on 2 November 1999, and operations were suspended in September 2002 after the Macedonian CAA revoked its operating license due to financial difficulties.

Destinations

Avioimpex operated from Skopje and Ohrid, main focus was on Switzerland (Zurich)

Fleet

The fleet included: * 1

McDonnell Douglas DC-9 The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced by the developer company as the Douglas DC-9 until August 1967 and then by McDonnell Douglas. Afte ...

Avioimpex
at rzjets.com, retrieved 13-12-2014 * 5 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 * 3

Tupolev Tu-154 The Tupolev Tu-154 (russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian ...

* 2

Yakovlev Yak-42 The Yakovlev Yak-42 (russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airlin ...

Accidents

On 20 November 1993

Avioimpex Flight 110 Avioimpex Flight 110 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Avioimpex that crashed on 20 November 1993 while flying from Geneva to Skopje. Before the disaster, Flight 110 had deviated from Skopje International Airport to Oh ...

, a

Yak-42 The Yakovlev Yak-42 (russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airli ...

, crashed near Ohrid Airport. The aircraft was on a flight from

Geneva , neighboring_municipalities= Carouge, Chêne-Bougeries, Cologny, Lancy, Grand-Saconnex, Pregny-Chambésy, Vernier, Veyrier , website = https://www.geneve.ch/ Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevr ...

, Switzerland to

, Macedonia, but had been diverted to the airport in

due to poor weather conditions.Plane Crash Kills 115 in Macedonia
/ref> On final approach the aircraft struck into the Trojan Hills, that lie in close vicinity to the airport. All eight crew members and 116 passengers died. One passenger, identified as Rade Jevremovich, survived the initial impact but died from his injuries on December 2.

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{{Airlines of Macedonia Defunct airlines of North Macedonia Airlines established in 1992 Airlines disestablished in 2002 Macedonian companies established in 1992