Tempelhof Airways USA was a

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headquartered in

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based out of

Berlin Tempelhof Airport Berlin Tempelhof Airport (german: Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof) was one of the first airports in Berlin, Germany. Situated in the south-central Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, the airport ceased operating in 2008 amid controversy, leav ...

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

during the time when it was under the jurisdiction of the western nations. It operated German domestic services from 1981 until the

reunification of Germany German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

in 1990.

History

Tempelhof Airways USA, (not to be confused with ''Tempelhof Express'') was founded in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1981 by Knut Kramer, a Berliner living in both Florida and Berlin. In April 1982 it began Air Taxi operations with a Piper Navajo from West Berlin's Tempelhof airport. At that time West Berlin could, due to its status of an occupied city, only have operations by airlines of the United States, France and Great Britain. In January 1985 scheduled flight operations began between Berlin and

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using

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aircraft. Most of these flights were for the massive

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offices based there. Operations were later expanded to Dortmund, Luxembourg, Augsburg and Braunschweig. In 1988 the Saab 340 was put into service for the Berlin-Hamburg route. They also operated an ambulance/medivac aircraft for many years, doing patient transport as well as organ transplant. They used a Lear 25 at first then expanded to a Lear 35. This was undertaken for the DeutscheRettungsflugwacht (German Air Rescue) organization in Stuttgart. After the Berlin Wall fell German pilots were allowed to fly to and from Berlin and the operation was absorbed into the parent company. Several of the old TAUSA medivac pilots were hired to remain with the operation. Following the reunification of Germany, Tempelhof Airways found itself unable to compete with other German carriers and at the end of October 1990 all flights ceased.Hengi,

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Tempelhof Airways USA Saab 340 Manteufel

* Piper Navajo * Cessna 441 *

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* Learjet 35 * Nord 262A * Saab 340A

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