WDL Aviation
German Regional Airlines GmbH & Co. KG, operating under the German Airways brand and formerly named ''WDL Aviation'', is a German charter and wet lease aircraft operator, headquartered at Cologne Bonn Airport, and part of the Zeitfracht Group. History Initially named ''WDL Flugdienst'', the company was set up in 1974 as a subsidiary of ''Westdeutsche Luftwerbung GmbH'', an aerial advertising provider founded in 1955. The current name was adopted in 1991, when the parent was reorganized as ''WDL Group''. With WDL Aviation offering aircraft lease and charter services, the aerial advertising and sightseeing flight branch (using blimps) survives in the other subsidiary of WDL Group, which is called ''WDL Luftschiff''. Since 1998, the British Aerospace 146 is in service with WDL Aviation. Other aircraft types that were operated by WDL Aviation include the Fokker F27 Friendship and an Airbus A320-200 on lease from Adria Airways between 1992 and 1993. WDL Aviation was acquired by t ...
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