Aerotransport
AB Aero Transport (short: ABA ) is a former Swedish airline. She is since 1948 part of the SAS Group.
History
Foundation
AB Aero Transport was founded in 1924 as Aktiebolaget AeroTransport by John Björk, Adrian and Carl Florman, Ernst Linder and John Nilsson. Main financiers and owners were the German Junker works possessed in 1925, 82 percent of the shares.
1920s
The first flight took place with a Junkers F 13 from the airport Linda Rängens in Stockholm to Helsinki on June 2, 1924. The aircraft, registered to 1929 as S- AAAC, then SE- AAC, is now at the Tekniska museet ( technical museum ), Stockholm. The flight schedule, with flights a day from Stockholm to Helsinki and at night with mail flights on the route Stockholm - Malmö - Amsterdam - London, was continued until 1928 with four machines of the type Junkers F 13. 1925 launched the ABA in cooperation with the Deutsche Luft Hansa scheduled flights between Stockholm and Berlin.
AB Aero Transport was the first airline, the flight commenced operations with three -engined Junkers G 24, which had been made in Sweden by AB Flygindustri. The first two got AB Aero Transport in March 1925 in the same month, the Riksdag granted ( Parliament of Sweden ) of the ABA, the licenses for the routes Stockholm -. Helsinki, Copenhagen - Gothenburg - Oslo and Malmö - Hamburg - Amsterdam. More G 24 were partially financed by the newly formed AB Flygmateriel, then the AB Aerotranport leased the machinery of the.
1930
AB AeroTransport bought in 1931 several land and water aircraft types Junkers W 33, W 34, G 23 and G 24 For longer air travel has purchased a three-engined Fokker F.XII.
In 1935, the Swedish state main owner of the ABA.
1938 Junkers Ju 86 Z-7 purchased as a mail plane, which was given the name Svalan. 1940, the Ju 87 was seized by the Swedish Air Force. ABA was awarded compensation. In the Air Force, the aircraft was renamed to the name of P9.
In 1937, AB AeroTransport bought as a second European airline, according to the Dutch KLM, a Douglas DC- third This allowed flights from long distance, for example from 1939 to Moscow. Since this year, the aircraft of the ABA were labeled with SWEDISH AIR LINES. In addition to the DC -3, the fleet of the ABA then consisted of five Junkers Ju 52/3m, a Junkers F 13 ( seaplane ) and two Fokker F.XII.
1940s
During the Second World War, the AB AeroTransport tried to maintain their scheduled flight plan. The flights to Moscow were recruited from June 1941 onwards, the. Berlin shortly before the capitulation of the Third Reich
In May 1942, regular transport flights were taken to London. Two machines of the types DC -3 ( SE -BAG and SE -BAF ) were shot down in 1943 during such a transport flight. After a contractual agreement with the warring parties of the air traffic was resumed after London, with airplanes, on whose hull large " SWEDEN " and stood on the tail, the national flag had been painted on. Nevertheless, a third DC-3 was shot, the machine was but fortunately missed. Therefore, now it was decided to use only Boeing B-17 from the transport flights to London.
The ABA expanded its European activities of more and more. After the withdrawal of German occupation lines were opened to Paris, Oslo and Prestwick ( Scotland).
On June 30, 1948, the State ABA merged with the private Svensk intercontinental air Trafik AB (short: SILA ) and conducted flight operations continue under the previous name AB AeroTransport. Thus, the ABA was incorporated in 1946 by the airlines SILA (Sweden), Det Danske Luftfartselskab A / S ( Denmark) and Det Norske Luftfartselskap (Norway ), founded Scandinavian Airlines.
Scandinavian Airlines
The Scandinavian Airlines (abbreviated SAS) become one of the leading airlines in Europe and today consist of two Norwegian and Danish and three Swedish ownership interests.
Others
One of the first pilots of AB AeroTransport was Hermann Goering.