Aus-Air

Aus-Air (Australian Air Charterers Pty Ltd) was an airline based in Melbourne, Australia. It operated a regional airline network, linking rural communities and provincial centres in Tasmania, Victoria and southern New South Wales with Melbourne. Its main base was Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne.

Aus-Air
IATA ICAO Callsign
NO AUS Aus-Air
Founded1956
Commenced operationsNovember 1986
Ceased operations4 July 1999
Operating basesMoorabbin Airport
Fleet size8
Destinations6
HeadquartersMelbourne, Australia

Code data

History
An Aus-Air Embraer Bandeirante at Moorabbin Airport in 1998

The privately owned Australian Air Charterers Pty Ltd was established in 1956 and commenced scheduled services in November 1986 between Essendon Airport in Melbourne and Smithton, Tasmania. The company moved its scheduled operations to its home base at Moorabbin in July 1987. The Aus-Air website (in December 2008 still accessible) stated that in the latter-1990s it had 50 employees. The company encountered financial difficulties and in 1999 was placed in Administration - a legal term in Australian Law not unlike Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the USA. The company and its assets were offered for sale however no buyer was found and Aus-Air ceased scheduled operations on 4 July 1999. The Aus-Air fleet of aircraft was subsequently purchased by Bankstown-based Airtex Aviation. As of December 2008 Aus-Air still operated three single-engined aircraft on a charter Air Operator Certificate.

As of April 2011, Aus-Air operates from Echuca in Victoria, north of Melbourne and offers charter flights. [2][3]

Destinations

At the time of its closure in 1999 Aus-Air operated services to the following domestic destinations:

Fleet

The Aus-Air fleet at the time it ceased operations consisted of the following aircraft:

References
  1. Airline Codes retrieved 7 April 2007
  2. Website of Aus-Air Archived 12 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Another Website of Aus-Air
  • Australian Aviation magazine Issue No. 157 December 1999. Annual Regional Airline Directory 1999, pp 49ff.


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