Skymaster Airlines

For the Australian airline formerly known as Skymaster Air Services, see Airtex Aviation.

For the American airline formerly known as Skymaster Air Taxi, see Atlantic North Airlines.

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

Skymaster Airlines

IATA ICAO Call sign - SKC SKYMASTER AIR
Founded	1995
Ceased operations	2010
Hubs	Eduardo Gomes International Airport
Secondary hubs	São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport
Focus cities	None
Fleet size	0
Destinations	Continental - Domestic
Headquarters	Manaus, Brazil
Website	http://www.skymaster.com.br

Boeing 707 of Skymaster Airlines at London Southend Airport in 1998

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 (US$35 million), for running a cartel that hampered competition and drove up bid prices of procurements by the country's state-owned postal service Correios.^[1]

Fleet

The Skymaster Airlines fleet included the following aircraft in August 2006, but the maximum was 8 :^[2]

• 5 Boeing 707-300F
• 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.

See also

• List of defunct airlines of Brazil