Tempelhof Airways

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Tempelhof Airways USA
IATA ICAO Callsign
-TEHTEMPELHOF
Founded1981
Commenced operations1982
Ceased operations1990
Operating bases Berlin Tempelhof Airport
Headquarters Fort Lauderdale, United States

Tempelhof Airways USA was a regional airline headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, United States based out of Berlin Tempelhof Airport in West Berlin during the time when it was under the jurisdiction of the western nations. It operated German domestic services from 1981 until the reunification of Germany in 1990.

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Aerospatiale N 262 of Tempelhof Airways at Berlin Tempelhof Airport, 1987. Nord 262A, N106TA, Tempelhof Airways USA.jpg
Aérospatiale N 262 of Tempelhof Airways at Berlin Tempelhof Airport, 1987.

Tempelhof Airways USA, (not to be confused with Tempelhof Express) was founded in Fort Lauderdale, FL in 1981 by Knut Kramer, a Berliner living in both Florida and Berlin. In April 1982 it began Air Taxi operations with a Piper Navajo from West Berlin's Tempelhof airport. At that time West Berlin could, due to its status of an occupied city, only have operations by airlines of the United States, France and Great Britain.

In January 1985 scheduled flight operations began between Berlin and Paderborn using Nord 262 aircraft. Most of these flights were for the massive Nixdorf Computer offices based there. Operations were later expanded to Dortmund, Luxembourg, Augsburg and Braunschweig. In 1988 the Saab 340 was put into service for the Berlin-Hamburg route. They also operated an ambulance/medivac aircraft for many years, doing patient transport as well as organ transplant. They used a Lear 25 at first then expanded to a Lear 35. This was undertaken for the DeutscheRettungsflugwacht (German Air Rescue) organization in Stuttgart. After the Berlin Wall fell German pilots were allowed to fly to and from Berlin and the operation was absorbed into the parent company. Several of the old TAUSA medivac pilots were hired to remain with the operation.

Following the reunification of Germany, Tempelhof Airways found itself unable to compete with other German carriers and at the end of October 1990 all flights ceased. [1]

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Tempelhof Airways USA Saab 340, 1989. Tempelhof Airways USA Saab 340 Manteufel.jpg
Tempelhof Airways USA Saab 340, 1989.

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