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  Flugunfall 07 AUG 1999 einer Dornier 228-201 D4-CBC - Santo Antão Island
The de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft which usually flew TACV Flight 5002 (Sao Vicente - Santo Antão) could not be used due to technical problems, so a Dornier 228, owned by the Cape Verde Coast Guard, was used.
D-CEDS was leased to Air Vendée and returned to Dornier in 1991.
Dornier sold to plane to the Cape Verde Coast Guard in November 1992, which leased the plane to TACV in June 1999.
www.aviation-safety.net /database/record.php?id=19990807-0&lang=de   (200 words)

  
  History and Specifications of the Dornier Do 228 Utility Transport / Maritime Patrol Aircraft - Military and ...
The Dornier Do 228 appeared in the early 1980's and served as a utility transport and maritime patrol aircraft for several global military branches.
The Dornier firm would later be acquired by Fairchild in 1996, with production of the Do 228 moved exclusively to India with the HAL firm, to which India would become one of the largest users of the system.
The Do 228 appeared in several minor variants, each offering up subtle improvements and changes to suit differing roles, while others were pushed into more specialized military roles fitted with powerful search radars.
www.militaryfactory.com /aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=62   (688 words)

  
  Michian Aircraft Trading (Dry Lease .com ACMI Leasing .com)
The Dornier 228 incorporates the fuselage cross section of the earlier Do 28 and 128 combined with an all new high technology supercritical wing and TPE331 turboprops.
228 developments include the 228101 with reinforced structure and landing gear for higher weights, the corresponding 228201 version of the 200, the 228202 version built under licence production in India with HAL to meet that country's Light Transport Aircraft requirement, and the 228212.
The 212 is the last Dornier (now Fairchild Aerospace) production aircraft, its improvements include higher operating weights, structural strengthening and a lower empty weight, improvements to enhance STOL performance and modern avionics.
www.michian.co.uk /index.asp?userid=&docref=paxfacts2&Model=Dornier&Varian=228   (247 words)

  
 Fatal Dornier 228 and Dornier 328 Events
One of the three crew members and 10 of the 19 passengers were killed.
The Dornier had been holding for 30 minutes due to reduced visibility.
7 August 1999; Cabo Verde Airlines Dornier 228;-200; Santo Antao Island, Cape Verde: The aircraft, which was owned by the Cape Verde Coast Guard and was in airline service as a temporary replacement aircraft, crashed into high ground while returning to the departure airport.
www.airsafe.com /events/models/dornier.htm   (623 words)

  
 Dornier 228
Diese Dornier 228 gehört seit Oktober 2002 zur Flotte der Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter.
Hier zu sehen eine Dornier 228 der Arcus Air - diese Maschine ist am Flughafen Dortmund gelegentlich zu kleineren Frachtcharterflügen anzutreffen.
Dornier 228 der Luftfahrtgesellschaft Walter beim Endanflug auf die Landebahn 06 (Anflug von Westen) - Im Hintergrund Teile des alten Terminals welche heute von der allgemeinen Luftfahrt (General Aviation) genutzt werden.
www.flughafen-dortmund.de /index.php?id=97   (178 words)

  
 NERC Airborne Research and Survey Facility - Aircraft
Dornier Do228-101 D-CALM, equipped with a SLAR antenna on hardpoints under the forward fuselage and a scatterometer mounted in the cabin floor opening, for the purpose of validating ERS-1 satellite instrumentation.
The ARSF deploys a highly-capable Dornier 228-101 research aircraft by means of a collaboration agreement with Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR).
The Do 228 is a twin turbo-prop powered, non-pressurised, shoulder-wing monoplane with rectangular-section fuselage and a double passenger/cargo door.
arsf.nerc.ac.uk /aircraft   (473 words)

  
 Dornier Do 228 Aircraft Facts, Dates and History
The Dornier Do 228 is a small, German, twin turboprop STOL-utility aircraft manufactured by Dornier GmbH (later DASA Dornier, Fairchild-Dornier) from 1981, to 1998.
Finally Dornier changed the engine and tested the new aircraft, which was named Dornier Do 128, with two Garrett TPE 331-5 engines.
At ILA '80 Dornier presented the new aircraft to the public.
www.flightlevel350.com /Dornier_Do_228_aircraft_facts.html   (261 words)

  
 Emmanuel Coindre
This Dornier 228 utility plane made a stopover at the Newport Municipal Airport on Thursday to take on fuel and supplies as part of an unusual mission at sea.
Randy Leypoldt is chief pilot for Bighorn Airways of Sheridan, Wyo. On Thursday morning, he arrived on the Oregon coast in the company's Dornier 228 utility aircraft, which is mostly used to transport West Yellowstone smokejumpers during the summer fire season.
The Dornier 228 is ideally suited for this type of work.
www.oceanrowing.com /Emmanuel_Coindre/2005/Press/NewsTimes_Oct21.htm   (565 words)

  
 DFS 228 Reconnaisance Glider
The aircraft was carried aloft on the back of a parent aircraft (here a Dornier 217), released and then used its on-board Walter motor to carry it up to its operating height.
David Myhra's Schiffer Military History book "DFS 228" is ambivalent about the provenance, but Phil Butler's "War Prizes" places this airframe at RAE Farnborough and the RAE negative numbers co-incide with his date information, so I am confident in siting these photographs at the RAE Farnborough dump in 1946.
An HWK 109-509.A1 motor could have been applied "off the shelf" were it not for the slender, long design of the DFS.228 fuselage, and the need to bring the weight of the motor forward, close to the centre of gravity.
www.walter-rockets.i12.com /walter/dfs228.htm   (1813 words)

  
 Take Flight Video Productions - The Makers of the Real Life Aviator Video Series!
The Dornier 228 was developed in the 1980’s by Fairchild Dornier.
The Dornier is a tough, short-field aircraft that's used for passenger service, freight and many sensor platforms.
Dornier has been recognized as an aviation pioneer and a leader in aircraft manufacturing, service and support for more than 75 years.
www.takeflightvideo.com /dornier228.htm   (362 words)

  
 Summit Air - DORNIER 228
To ensure that you remain in-touch with your business during travel, the Dornier 228 is equipped with Satellite Phones.
To accommodate both passengers and cargo, the Dornier 228 can be effortlessly converted into a “combi” configuration, with a dividing wall separating both cabins.
Depicted is the Dornier 228 in “Cargo” configuration.
www.summitair.net /fleet/dornier.html   (231 words)

  
 Dornier Aircraft
Development of the three-seat Dornier Do 22 floatplane was the responsibility of Dornier's Altenrhein factory...
Aerodynamically the cleanest of the Dornier flying-boats, the all-metal Dornier Do 26 was developed for...
The unusual tandem-engined layout used in the Pfeil was first patented by Dr Claude Dornier...
avia.russian.ee /air/germany/a_dornier.html   (321 words)

  
 Dropzone.com Skydive Forums: Skydiving: Skydiving History & Trivia: Dornier 228 - Late 80's?
During that same time period 1985 to 1987, I attended several Dornier 228 boogies in Leutkirch, Bavaria, near Ulm in Southern Germany.
It seems that the local baron (?) was an avid sports flier, so he arranged for a Dornier 228 - from Dragon Air (?) a West German commuter airline to fly there once a month.
The flight under the bridge was awesome, guess the FAA rep was not happy, as she reported the incident.
www.dropzone.com /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2408883;sb=post_subject;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;guest=27042425   (1395 words)

  
 Dornier Do-228-101
One aircraft, IN 231, has been re-fitted with the Israeli Elta EL/M-2022A (V3) airborne maritime surveillance radar and the Indian Navy has placed a contract for the radar system to be fitted to the other Dornier aircraft.
Alan Warnes {Air Forces Monthly fame} reports that Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) and Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI) have integrated IN 231 into a full day and night imagery gathering concept with a down link to the ground station's intelligence system.
The IN Dorniers reportedly carry AShMs of an unspecified type.
www.bharat-rakshak.com /NAVY/Do228.html   (919 words)

  
 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited - Exports - Dornier 228
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited - Exports - Dornier 228
HAL Dornier DO-228 is a light transport aircraft manufactured under license from M/s.
The aircraft, originally designed, developed and manufactured by M/s Dornier GmbH, Germany is presently manufactured only by HAL.
www.hal-india.com /exports/dornier.asp   (289 words)

  
 Dornier Do 228 - bedeutung definition erklärung glossar zu Dornier Do 228   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dornier Do 228 - bedeutung definition erklärung glossar zu Dornier Do 228
Die Dornier DO 228 war ein sehr erfolgreiches Transport- und Verbindungsflugzeug (engl.: commuter) der Dornier-Werke.
Daneben unterhielt die Bundeswehr noch eine weitere Dornier Do 228 u.a.
dornier_do_228.lexikona.de /art/Dornier_Do_228.html   (181 words)

  
 AIN Online: Passenger attacks crew of Dornier 228 with axe   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At smaller airports that are not equipped to screen passengers and cabin baggage, Norwegian authorities have now required that on aircraft equipped with a securable cockpit door, that door should be locked from the pilot’s side from pushback until the engines are shut down at the destination arrival gate.
They soon retracted this explanation and said that it was a small hunting axe that the attacker smuggled onto the aircraft, along with a carpet-cutting knife that was found in his bag.
Ralf Ott, Dornier 228 service manager with the Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany-based company, told AIN that the doors can be retrofitted fairly easily, although he could not give exact prices for the modification.
www.ainonline.com /issues/11_04/11_04_passengerp72.html   (667 words)

  
 Nigerian Military Plane Crash Victims
Kaduna State based DANA Aviation company, which sold the Dornier aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force(NAF), also maintains the fleet for her.
Dornier 228 plane is fairly common in Nigeria.
The Dornier 228 was first flown in 1981.
www.nigeriamasterweb.com /NigeriaMilitaryPlaneCrashVictims.html   (441 words)

  
 The Axe man
The Dornier 228 didn't have a "bulletproof" cockpit door either.
Last December a Dornier 228 operated by Kato Air was hit by lightning, causing the elevator to be inoperable.
The plane was a 20-seater Dornier 228 operated by the small regional airline Kato Air, with seven passengers on board.
www.iasa.com.au /folders/Security_Issues/axeman.html   (1014 words)

  
 Times of Nigeria - Nigerian Military Plane Crashes, Senior Officers Dead!   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A Nigerian air force Dornier 228 aircraft with 17 people, including senior military officers, on board crashed in a yet unknown part of Nigeria, defense spokesman Felix Chukwuma said Sept 17.
Preliminary reports indicate that there were some survivors in the flight from Abuja to the Obudu Cattle Ranch in the southeastern state of Cross River where the officials were to participate in a series of meetings at a hotel and conference center.
Dornier 228 is a German made transport aircraft.
www.thetimesofnigeria.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1091   (262 words)

  
 SAMOANET - Inter Island Air - Employment Opportunities
ATP with a minimum of 3 years and 3,000 hours Pilot-in-Command (PIC) on multi-engine aircraft, preferrably on the Dornier 228, Fairchild Metro II, MU-2, or combination of same aircraft for a Part 135 or 121 Airline.
Pilot-in-Command (Captain) on Dornier 228 flights between scheduled island routes serviced by Inter Island Air, and charter flights to other exotic island places.
The ideal candidate will be well versed with the capabilities and limitations of the Dornier 228 aircraft and a good understanding of FAA Part 135 Regulations.
www.samoanet.com /iia/employment/iiaemp.htm   (1004 words)

  
 Henry Tenby - Internet Ventures / Nepal Aviation Holiday DVD
Nestled on a small plateau on the angled side of steep cliff at 9400 feet, this short 1500-foot airstrip is a hive of Twin Otter and Dornier 228 activity, flying tourists and trekkers in from Kathmandu.
We'll see lots of action footage filmed at Lukla including Sita Air's Dornier 228, Yeti DHC-6 Twin Otters, Agni Air Dornier 228, Royal Nepal Twin Otters, Shangri-La Air Twin Otters.
Chapter 2) Flight to Lukla on Sita Air Dornier 228 (OCT 20, 2006)
henrytenby.com /dvds/nepaldvd.html   (448 words)

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