Bin Air

Bin Air
IATA ICAO Callsign
- BID[1] BINAIR[2]
Founded 1996[2]
Hubs Essen/Mühlheim Airport
Fleet size 11
Headquarters Cologne
Website binair.eu

BinAir Aero Service GmbH[3] is a German charter airline based at Munich Airport. The company was established in 1996 and is specialized in ad hoc freight services across Europe.

Fleet

As of February 2018, the BinAir Fleet consists of the following aircraft:[4]

Bin Air fleet
Aircraft In service Notes
Fairchild SA227-AT 2 —
Fairchild SA227-AC 5 1 Stored
Fairchild Dornier SA-227DC Metro 23 3 —
Swearingen SA227-TT Merlin 300 1 —
Total 11

Accidents and incidents

Bin Air Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
  • On 19 January 2010, a Bin Air Swearingen SA-227-DC Metro was damaged when the right main undercarriage collapsed on landing at Stuttgart Airport.[5]
  • The European Union warned the airline in 2011 to improve its safety or face inclusion in the EU no-flight blacklist of banned airlines.[6] The issue was also discussed by the commission implementing regulation (eu) no 390/2011 of 19 April 2011 in points 15 and 16.[7]
  • On 7 March 2013, a Bin Air metroliner was responsible for the closure of Dublin Airport's main runway for around 35 minutes when its forward retracting nose wheel collapsed during landing.[8][9][10]

References

  1. ↑ Bin Air code data at planespotters.net
  2. 1 2
  3. ↑ "List of Air Carriers licensed by the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (current Operating Licences), Version: October 27, 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 28 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Bin Air fleet". Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Accident: BinAir SW4 at Stuttgart on Jan 19th 2010, right main gear collapsed on landing". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
  6. ↑ EU warns German, Spanish airlines over safety Archived March 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., Irish Independent retrieved 5/5/2011.
  7. ↑ see points 15 and 16, official journal of the european union 20-04-2011 accessed 5-5-2011.
  8. ↑ "Flights resume at Dublin Airport after small cargo plane damaged on landing". RTÉ News, Ireland. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  9. ↑ "Photo: Crashed Metroliner at Dublin Airport". @MMcKCiara Ciara Underwood. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  10. ↑ Kapps, Sebastien. "Accident: Bin Air are rubbish according to Dublin crash witnesses". Simon Hradecky.

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