Douglas DC-7B SE-ERA Transair Kastrup 10

Transair Sweden AB (

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: TB) was a Swedish

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that operated until 1981.

History

Transair Sweden began as Nordisk Aerotransport AB in 1950 with the purpose of flying newspapers from Stockholm to other locations in Sweden using

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aircraft. In 1953 passenger charters began using

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's, and soon after the name was changed to Transair Sweden. In 1957 the Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando cargo aircraft was introduced.

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acquired from

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were introduced in 1959. From 1965 nine

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were bought from

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and were added to the fleet for charter use and for flights during the civil war in Congo on behalf of the

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. Freight flights on behalf of SAS were begun to cities such as Malmo, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Paris. In 1967 Boeing 727-134s were acquired but those were not kept very long. However, a year later Transair was bought by Svenska Handelsbank and financing was introduced to acquire jet aircraft again. Shortly thereafter SAS took a majority holding in Transair Sweden and the airline was kept flying independently under its own colors taking tourists to Spain, the Canary Islands, and other Mediterranean destinations. In 1981 SAS sold all the 727s and the employees were integrated into SAS.

Fleet

*3 -

*11 -

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*3 -

*6 -

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*11 -

*4 - Boeing 727-134 and 727-30C

Business management

CEOs

*1959-1966 - Gösta Ellhammar

Chairman of the Board

*1958-1963 - Knut Bjuhr *1963-1966 - Bengt Elmgren *1973-1978 -

Knut Hagrup Knut Hagrup (né Hagerup-Svendsen; 13 November 1913 – 15 May 2003) was a Norwegian aviator. He was born in Bergen to Henry Lie-Svendsen and Ebba Hagerup . He served with the Norwegian Armed Forces in exile, exiled Norwegian Armed Forces and ...

Accidents and incidents

* September 18, 1961:

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Dag Hammarskjöld Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld ( , ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 196 ...

and 15 other passengers and crew died when their DC-6B (registration SE-BDY) crashed near

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(now

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).Accident report 1961 Ndola DC-6 Crash
/ref> The plane was owned by Transair Sweden and operated for the UN.

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{{Airlines of Sweden Defunct airlines of Sweden Airlines established in 1950 Airlines disestablished in 1981