Partnair A/S was a Norwegian charter airline which operated from 1971 to 1989. During the later 1980s it was Norway's fifth-largest airline by revenue, operating a fleet of three Convair CV-580 and six Beechcraft Super King Air. The airline was based at Oslo Airport, Fornebu, as well as operating a base at Stavanger Airport, Sola.
The airline was established as Paralift in 1968 to allow a group of friends to operate a Cessna 182 for parachuting. The company went commercial in 1971 and acquired four Cessna twin-props by 1975. The airline focused on business charters. During the late 1970s the fleet was replaced with Piper PA-31 Navajos. The Partnair name was adopted in the mid 1970s. The first of what eventually became eight Beechcraft King Air and the later Super models was bought in 1978. Partnair briefly operated two Cessna 550 Citation II corporate jets in 1983.
The airline merged with Nor-Fly Charter in 1984, acquiring two Convair 580s. A third was added in 1986. It built a new hangar and office complex in 1985. The only spell of scheduled traffic, out of Notodden Airport, Tuven, took place between 1985 and 1986. The company went into a period with severe financial difficulties and went bankrupt in 1987, but soon revived. The crash of Partnair Flight 394 on 8 September 1989 was the final blow for the company, which filed for bankruptcy on 11 October. Operations were restarted in what became Air Stord.
Partnair A/S was a Norwegian charter airline which operated from 1971 to 1989. During the later 1980s it was Norway's fifth-largest airline by revenue...
Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered flight that crashed on 8 September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres (11 mi; 10 nmi) north of Hirtshals...
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390HV5, the '5' meaning five kiloponds. However, on the aircraft flying Partnair Flight 394 the pins were later found to have been replaced with sub-standard...
President Jimmy Carter attempting to broker a peace settlement. September 8 – Partnair Flight 394 flies past an F-16 Fighting Falcon on its way home, then the...
Canal Digital, Equinor, Norgesgruppen and EVRY are also based at Fornebu. Partnair, a charter airline, was headquartered at Fornebu Airport up to 1989. When...
aftermath of the bankruptcy of Partnair in October 1989. Its owners, the Thorsen brothers, established Nye Partnair ("New Partnair") along with Jostein Nerhus...
municipality hoped to establish charter services, but these never realized. Partnair started flights to Oslo and Stavanger in 1985, but these were terminated...
Baltic Sea on approach to Copenhagen Airport killing 31. 8 September 1989 - Partnair Flight 394 suffers a rudder hardover due to counterfeit parts and breaks...
defects with metal plating, and from production overruns. The crash of Partnair Flight 394 in 1989 resulted from the installation of counterfeit aircraft...
Brazilian jungle, killing 13 of the 54 people on board. September 8 – Partnair Flight 394, a Convair 580, crashes into the North Sea after its tail section...
became one of the largest fishing ports in Denmark. On September 8 1989 Partnair flight 394 crashed off the coast of Hirtshals killing all 55 passengers...
surrounding structure to fail leaving large hole; landed safely 1989-09-08 Partnair Flight 394 Denmark: 18 km north of Hirtshals Convair 580 Improper maintenance:...
closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires. 1989 – Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation...
mid-1989, Partnair bought 51 percent of Fonnafly. Three months later, Partnair filed for bankruptcy, but Fonnafly continued operations. Partnair was reestablished...
a very high-quality counterfeit the United States hundred dollar bill Partnair Flight 394 — a chartered flight that crashed in 1989, killing all 55 people...
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