Zimex Aviation Ltd. is an

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based in

Glattbrugg Opfikon (; in the local Swiss German dialect: )Andres Kristol/Gabrielle Schmid, ''Opfikon ZH (Bülach)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni sviz ...

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. It provides aircraft leases worldwide to the oil, Express Cargo, Utility, VIP Charter, Charter and mining industries and to humanitarian organizations. Zimex Aviation, furthermore, it is the oldest airline company in Switzerland (according FOCA) Its main base is at

EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg IATA airport 3-letter codes for the French area, the Swiss area, and the metropolitan area is an international airport in the administrative commune of Saint-Louis, in the French Alsace part of the Trination ...

and Maintenance (MRO) facility is located in St Gallen Airport, and at Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 2021, Zimex Aviation has started operation as well for its Austria Division - Zimex Austria with ICAO Code: AZD. Main operation at the moment are in place in Sweden operating for Postnord, Carousel in Germany operating out of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Hannover. Some operations, as well, are conducted for BDA and ASL, serving routes out from Maastricht, Birmingham, Dublin, Prestwick, and Shannon. Zimex, as well, operates on bi-weekly bases flights in and out from Basel to Pristina and Sarajevo on behalf of Swiss Army for troupe repositioning. As per August 7th, 2023 operation in Sweden will be performed by Zimex using ICAO code JUP, and Callsign JumpAir.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1969. On October 14, 1987, a Lockheed L-100-30 - a civilian variant of the military transport plane

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- was shot down in Angola. It was operated on behalf of the

International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate. The organization has played an instrumental role in the development of rules of war and ...

. In October 1999, Zimex Aviation Group was sold to a Swiss investor group.

Fleet

The Zimex Aviation fleet comprises the following aircraft (as of May 2023): At the July 2010

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, Zimex took delivery of the first DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 400 produced by

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