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REV
  
ENDURANCE

Founded
  
1985

Website
  
RVL Group

Fleet size
  
15

Parent company
  
Reconnaissance Ventures Limited

Headquarters
  
East Midlands, United Kingdom

Rvl aviation rev213p 03 02 2017


RVL Aviation is an airline based at East Midlands Airport, United Kingdom, with the related RVL Survey it is part of the RVL Group.

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RVL Aviation Limited holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, it is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.

History

The company was formed in 1985 as Atlantic Air Transport and was renamed RVL Aviation in April 2007 when parts of the former Air Atlantique Group became independent businesses.

The company began re-locating its core business from Coventry Airport to East Midlands Airport in autumn 2010, and with the completion of the purpose-built hangar facility in October 2011, it closed its outlying base (Blackpool) at the end of 2011.

As well as ad hoc passenger and cargo charters, the company specialises in aerial survey and surveillance and in particular operations from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). Work for the MCA includes surveillance and search and rescue support and providing aircraft on standby for spraying oil spills with dispersant. Originally using a fleet of piston-engined Douglas DC-3 aircraft, the company intends to use the Boeing 737 in the emergency spray role.

Fleet

RVL Group own and operate the following aircraft:(correct as of July 2016):

  • 5 x Cessna 404 Titan
  • 6 x Reims-Cessna F 406
  • 4 x Cessna 310
  • 1 x Cessna 402
  • RVL has also recently operated the following types:

  • 2 x Partenavia P.68 (2012-2012)
  • 1 x Britten Norman Islander
  • References

    RVL Aviation Wikipedia