Société Air Alsace was an airline with its head office on the grounds of the Colmar-Houssen Aerodrome

Colmar Airport

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 in Colmar

Colmar

Colmar is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It is the capital of the department. Colmar is also the seat of the highest jurisdiction in Alsace, the appellate court....

, France

France

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Company history

Air Alsace began as an air taxi

Air taxi

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 operation based in Colmar

Colmar

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 in 1962. It began operations using small aircraft and in 1974 began regional services

Regional airline

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. In cooperation with Air France

Air France

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 it offered services to Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, Brussels

Brussels

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, Cologne

Cologne

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, and Rome

Rome

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. London-Gatwick and Milan

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 were later added. Air Alsace entered the jet age with the use of the VFW 614 and later acquired the Fokker F.28. In 1981 it merged with TAT - Touraine Air Transport and Air Alpes

Air Alpes

Société Air Alpes was a French airline company headquartered in Chambéry Airport and in Viviers-du-Lac, Savoie, near Chambéry. Established in 1961 by Michel Ziegler, the airline's history began in the French Alps.-Creation:...

 to form TAT-Transport Aerien Transregional.

Fleet details

• Aérospatiale Corvette
  Aérospatiale Corvette
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• Cessna
  Cessna
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• Piper Navajo (these 2 aircraft were the ones it commenced services with)
• Nord 262
  Nord 262
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• Fokker F.27 Friendship
• VFW 614
• Fokker F28
  Fokker F28
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