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Founded | 2002 | ||||||
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Operating bases |
OR Tambo International Airport Libreville International Airport Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 31 | ||||||
Headquarters | Johannesburg, South Africa | ||||||
Website | solenta.com |
Solenta Aviation is an airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with its maintenance base at OR Tambo International Airport. The company was founded in 2000 [1] and operates cargo flights on regional routes throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa on behalf of DHL Aviation. Solenta Aviation also operates extensively for the oil and gas industry ( "OGP"), offering passenger charter, cargo and aircraft lease services.
Solenta Aviation has adopted a de-centralised business model, thus being able to offer flexible short-haul cargo flights. From its home and maintenance base at OR Tambo International Airport, it operates a number of DHL flights on regional routes to Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe using a fleet of ATR 42 and Cessna 208 Caravan cargo aircraft. [2]
There are several subsidiaries under separate airline licenses:
Further aircraft of Solenta Aviation are based and operated out of several other airports:
The Solenta Aviation mainline fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2022):
Aircraft | In Service |
Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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ATR 72-201F | 1 [11] | 0 [11] | 0 | ZS-XCJ delivered 22/02/2017 Parked since 12/2020 [11] |
Beechcraft 1900D | 17 [12] | 0 [13] | 16 | |
ATR 72-202F | 1 [11] | 0 [13] | 0 | ZS-XCL delivered 30/06/2017 [11] |
Embraer ERJ 145LR | 1 [14] | 0 [13] | 50 | ZS-BBJ delivered 01/01/2017 [14] |
Embraer ERJ 145LU | 1 [14] | 0 [13] | 50 | ZS-BBD delivered 11/10/2015 Parked since 12/2020 [14] |
Total | 21 [13] |
The Solenta Aviation fleet previously included the following aircraft:
On 6 June 2011 at 10:25 local time, an Antonov An-26 ( registered TR-LII) ditched into the Gulf of Guinea 2.3 kilometres off Libreville, Gabon. The aircraft was operated by Scorpion Air, a Bulgarian company, under Solenta Aviation Gabon's AOC. [16] It had been on Flight 122A for DHL Aviation from Port Gentil to Libreville. [17] [18] The three crew members and one passenger on board received only minor injuries. [17] Prior to the ditching, they had reported hydraulic problems; eyewitness reports suggest that an engine failure may have occurred. [18] [19] As a consequence, the Gabonese government declared a temporary ban on aircraft of the types Antonov An-12, An-24 and An-26 in the country, pending the outcome of the investigation into the cause for the crash. [20]
Media related to Solenta Aviation at Wikimedia Commons
This article needs to be updated.(August 2014) |
| |||||||
Founded | 2002 | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Operating bases |
OR Tambo International Airport Libreville International Airport Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 31 | ||||||
Headquarters | Johannesburg, South Africa | ||||||
Website | solenta.com |
Solenta Aviation is an airline based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with its maintenance base at OR Tambo International Airport. The company was founded in 2000 [1] and operates cargo flights on regional routes throughout the Sub-Saharan Africa on behalf of DHL Aviation. Solenta Aviation also operates extensively for the oil and gas industry ( "OGP"), offering passenger charter, cargo and aircraft lease services.
Solenta Aviation has adopted a de-centralised business model, thus being able to offer flexible short-haul cargo flights. From its home and maintenance base at OR Tambo International Airport, it operates a number of DHL flights on regional routes to Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe using a fleet of ATR 42 and Cessna 208 Caravan cargo aircraft. [2]
There are several subsidiaries under separate airline licenses:
Further aircraft of Solenta Aviation are based and operated out of several other airports:
The Solenta Aviation mainline fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2022):
Aircraft | In Service |
Orders | Passengers | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
ATR 72-201F | 1 [11] | 0 [11] | 0 | ZS-XCJ delivered 22/02/2017 Parked since 12/2020 [11] |
Beechcraft 1900D | 17 [12] | 0 [13] | 16 | |
ATR 72-202F | 1 [11] | 0 [13] | 0 | ZS-XCL delivered 30/06/2017 [11] |
Embraer ERJ 145LR | 1 [14] | 0 [13] | 50 | ZS-BBJ delivered 01/01/2017 [14] |
Embraer ERJ 145LU | 1 [14] | 0 [13] | 50 | ZS-BBD delivered 11/10/2015 Parked since 12/2020 [14] |
Total | 21 [13] |
The Solenta Aviation fleet previously included the following aircraft:
On 6 June 2011 at 10:25 local time, an Antonov An-26 ( registered TR-LII) ditched into the Gulf of Guinea 2.3 kilometres off Libreville, Gabon. The aircraft was operated by Scorpion Air, a Bulgarian company, under Solenta Aviation Gabon's AOC. [16] It had been on Flight 122A for DHL Aviation from Port Gentil to Libreville. [17] [18] The three crew members and one passenger on board received only minor injuries. [17] Prior to the ditching, they had reported hydraulic problems; eyewitness reports suggest that an engine failure may have occurred. [18] [19] As a consequence, the Gabonese government declared a temporary ban on aircraft of the types Antonov An-12, An-24 and An-26 in the country, pending the outcome of the investigation into the cause for the crash. [20]
Media related to Solenta Aviation at Wikimedia Commons