Aviation24.be

Thank you for your suggestion. I made a visit to this site before. So dear "Q707", I'm afraid I'll need a "SuperDC6" to find the answer .

DAT fleet:
Beech QueenAir: OO-VDD, VDE.
Douglas DC-3/C-47: OO-AUV, AUX, DVG, GVG, AVG, CBU, KVG, VDF.
Douglas DC-4: N38934.
Douglas DC-6: OO-VGB, CTK, EVG (from 1973 VGE), FVG (from 1973 VGF), LVG (from 1973 VGL), RVG, VFG, VGK.
Convair CV-440: OO-PVG (from 1973 VGP), TVG (from 1973 VGT), UVG (from ...

Does anyone of you (perhaps among the older ones) know what S.I.D.M.A. was? This company flew in 1968-1969 De Havilland DH.104 Dove OO-BPL and leased the Douglas DC-6 OO-GER from BIAS.
:?: Both planes flew in red-gold S.I.D.M.A. c/s.
The only thing I know is that it was some "import-export" company.

More on Flanders Airlines:
Flanders Airlines was incorporated on 26/12/1989 after some kind of merger of Servisair Belgium and Frevag Airlines.
Flanders Airlines flew 6 Fokker F-27 Friendship:
(OO-FEA, OO-FEF, OO-FEG, OO-SVL, OO-SVM and OO-SVN) and
2 (Fairchild) Swearingen Metro:
(OO-VGC and OO-VGD ...

BIAS:
There are photos of BIAS airliners on the internet.
DC-6 OO-ABE on Airliners.net (in the second c/s).
DC-6 OO-PAY somewhere else (in the third c/s).
One of the DC-8's in BIAS International c/s on Airliners.net (OO-AMI or OO-CMB).

Belgian International Air Services (BIAS) was founded by C. Van Antwerpen around 1959. It first flew with Douglas DC-4/C-54 (a.o. OO-VAN, OO-RIC, OO-DEP). Then from the mid 60's came the Douglas DC-6B and A's (OO-GER, OO-OO-ABE, OO-ABG, OO-PAY/HEX). They took over the Libyan operations of Sabena ...

Bad news: the little windows above the cockpit windows have disappearded on the most recently assembled Boeing 717's. Boeing decided to this because it's cheaper without those eyebrow windows. So if you want to see SN BA B717 with such windows they have to buy/lease second hand exampes.

RA-25200 is a Mil Mi-8 Hip. In the background Mil Mi-26 Halo helicopters. There must be one like that in Charleroi

Airliner World of August 2003 (page 16):
On the jetBlue Embraer 190 order:
"...the Brazilian manufacturer has confirmed that it has already secured a second customer for the aircraft, but is contractually obliged not to reveal the name..." The order is for 10 aircraft plus 20 options and the ...

You can find a lot of information on older OO-registered airliners in publications from Aviation Society of Antwerp-ASA. They just published their third BCARG-Special on airliners in Belgium, this time the Douglas DC-4/C-54. Special 1 was on the Boeing 707/720 and Special 2 on the Convair 240/440/580.