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HGR
  
HANG

Destinations
  
Unknown

Key people
  
Dustin Dryden

Fleet size
  
50

Operating bases
  
20

Parent company
  
Gama Aviation

Founded
  
2002

Parent organization
  
Gama Aviation


Headquarters
  
Oxford Airport, United Kingdom

Hangar8 plc is a private jet operator with headquarters in the United Kingdom. It has fleet bases at Oxford Airport, Luton Airport, Biggin Hill Airport, Edinburgh, Guernsey, Jersey, Nice, Almaty, Kiev, Dubai, Krasnodar, Mumbai, Abuja, Lagos and Moscow airports.

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Hangar8 Plc, which includes the VVIP boutique operator JetClub based in Farnborough, operates a fleet of 50+ aircraft across key manufacturer types. Having started out as a mid-size and super mid-size jet operator, Hangar8’s has moved towards a focus on the long haul market. The speciality is now Gulfstream and Bombardier products with a fleet of more than 20 Bombardier Challenger and Global type aircraft.

In 2015 it was announced that the Hangar8 brand would disappear and the company will use the name of its parent Gama Aviation.

Fleet

Hangar8's fleet consists of:

Bombardier

  • 1 Global 6000
  • 1 Global XRS
  • 3 Challenger 605
  • 3 Challenger 604
  • 2 Challenger 601
  • 1 Learjet 60XR
  • Dassault

  • 1 Falcon 2000 EX
  • 1 Falcon 50 EX
  • 1 Falcon 20
  • Hawker

  • 3 Hawker 900XP
  • 1 Hawker 850XP
  • 1 Hawker 750
  • Citation XLS

  • 1 Cessna Citation XLS
  • Citation CJ

  • 2 Cessna Citation CJ
  • Citation V

  • 1 Cessna Citation V
  • Embraer

  • 1 Phenom 100
  • The TV Series The X Factor 2012 featured a Hangar8 jet in the opening episode, with Gary Barlow, Nicole Scherzinger, Louis Walsh and Tulisa Contostavlos exiting the aircraft.

    The TV Series Midsomer Murders featured a Hangar8 jet in the episode "The Black Book".

    References

    Hangar8 plc Wikipedia