PT Aviastar Mandiri, operating as Aviastar was an Indonesian passenger

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers or freight (cargo). Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines ...

based in

East Jakarta East Jakarta (; ), abbreviated as Jaktim, is the largest of the five administrative cities (''kota administrasi'') which form the Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia, with a land area of 188.03 km2 (72.6 sq.miles). It had a population ...

Jakarta Jakarta (; , Betawi language, Betawi: ''Jakartè''), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (; ''DKI Jakarta'') and formerly known as Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia and ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

History

The airline was established on 12 June 2000 by Capt. Sugeng Triyono and his 4 colleagues which started as

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which Lift (force), lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning Helicopter rotor, rotors. This allows the helicopter to VTOL, take off and land vertically, to hover (helicopter), hover, and ...

charter services company with various leased helicopters. Since 2003 Aviastar began operating fix wing aircraft with 2 units of DeHavilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otters and began to drop its rotary wings operations. Aviastar now is an established company dealing with air transportation services either for chartered flights or schedule flights and currently operates 4 units of

DHC-6-300 The de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter is a Canadian STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada in the mid-1960s and still in production today. Built by De Havilland Canada from 1965 to 1988, Viking Ai ...

and 3 units of

BAe 146-200 The British Aerospace 146 (also BAe 146) is a short-haul and regional airliner that was manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace, later part of BAE Systems. Production ran from 1983 until 2001. Avro International Aerospace manu ...

with plan to order 3 units more of

to add in its fleet before end of 2013. Its main operation base is located in Jakarta (CGK) with other operation bases in Palangkaraya (PKY), Balikpapan (BPN), Makassar (UPG), Nabire (NBX) and Denpasar (DPS). Since 2022, Aviastar has ceased operations and its website has been down.

Destinations

Aviastar serves 36 routes in commercial and government subsidiary pioneer flights prior to the end of operation.

Fleet

Current fleet

The Aviastar fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2019):

Former fleet

The airline previously operated the following aircraft (as of August 2017): * 3 British Aerospace 146-200 * 1 further De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter

Accidents and incidents

* On 9 April 2009, an Aviastar BAe 146-300 PK-BRD, crashed to a mountain near

Wamena Wamena, also known as the District of Wamena ''(Distrik Wamena)'', is a large town in the Western New Guinea region of Indonesia. It also serves as the Regency seat, seat of Jayawijaya Regency. It is the largest town in the province of Highland ...

, Papua,

, after a failed second approach for landing at Wamena Airport. * On 2 October 2015, an Aviastar DHC-6 Twin Otter, registered as PK-BRM, operating Aviastar Flight 7503 with three crew members and seven passengers on board, crashed near Palopo 11 minutes after takeoff. The passengers were 4 adults, 2 children, and 1 baby. There were no survivors.

References

External links

*
Airline Update

Data Maskapai Dirjen Perhubungan Udara Dephub
{{Airlines of Indonesia Defunct airlines of Indonesia Airlines established in 2003 Airlines disestablished in 2022 Airlines formerly banned in the European Union Indonesian companies established in 2003