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SKC
  
SKYMASTER AIR

Destinations
  
Continental - Domestic

Headquarters
  
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Fleet size
  
8

Focus cities
  
None

Key people
  
General Director

Founded
  
1995

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Secondary hubs
  
São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport

Website
  
http://www.skymaster.com.br

Hubs
  
São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport, Eduardo Gomes International Airport

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Skymaster Airlines was a cargo airline based in Manaus, Brazil. It operated charter cargo services in Brazil and other countries in the Americas.

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History

The airline was established on 30 November 1995 and started operations in 1997.

On February 19, 2014, Skymaster along with BETA Cargo were fined by CADE (Brazilian antitrust court) a combined 83 million reais (35 million USD), for running a cartel that hampered competition and drove up bid prices of procurements by the country's state-owned postal service Correios.

Fleet

The Skymaster Airlines fleet included the following aircraft in August 2006:

  • 1 Douglas DC-8-62CF
  • 2 Douglas DC-8-63CF

    • Crashes and Incidents

  • On 7 March 2001, a Skymaster Airlines 707-320C, registration PT-MST, landed hard on Runway 09R, São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil. As a result of the landing the undercarriage failed, damaging all four engines and injuring three people. The aircraft was subsequently written off.

    • References

    Skymaster Airlines Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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