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  • Chapman Freeborn is the largest air charter broker in the world with 36 offices in 20 countries
  • In June 2007, we were voted"Air Cargo Charter Broker of The Year" at the ACW World Air Cargo Awards in Munich
  • Chapman Freeborn was established in 1973
  • Annual group turnover is over $450m
  • The Chapman Freeborn group employs nearly 300 personnel
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Chapman Freeborn Moscow and London co-operate to repatriate
Russian General from USA to Moscow

6th October 2005

Alexey Korolev of Chapman Freeborn Airchartering’s Moscow office recently worked on a very interesting trip to repatriate a Russian general from the USA for a proper burial in Moscow.

The task was to take a delegation of Russian officials from Paris Le Bourget to New York where a ceremonial funeral would take place and the remains of famous Russian"White" General Anton Denikin were then to be flown home to Moscow to be reburied on 3rd October at the Donskoy Monastery. The delegation included Denikin’s daughter, Marina Denikina-Grey on whose request the repatriation took place.

This famous Russian figure fought in WWI, emigrated to France in 1920, and later settled in the USA. He died of"a broken heart" in 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, leaving his memoirs"The Way of a Russian Officer" unfinished.

A ceremony was held at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign in New York on 28th September, with the great choir of the Sretensky Monastery of Moscow singing. That evening, a formal reception was held at the Russian Consulate in New York.

The following day, the coffin was flown from Newark to Paris Le Bourget where the General’s daughter, Marina Denikina-Grey, resides. The delegation traveled on the VIP MD-83 operated by Jet Alliance of Austria and chartered by Anna Pizzagalli in Chapman Freeborn’s London office. Ivan Roberts of CF London also went along as a flight rider to oversee the sensitive operation and liaise with the aircraft operator, handling agents, embassy officials and control authorities to ensure that the flight went well. From there, the party flew from Le Bourget to Moscow on a TU-154 chartered by Atlant-Soyuz.

The flights operated to schedule and the burial of General Denikin was performed at Donskoy Monastery cemetery on October 3rd.

CF Moscow’s Alexey Korolev commented:"we managed to find the right aircraft at the right price and the perfect co-ordination between offices and with Ivan, the flight rider, meant that we paid special attention to all the details and helped to complete a significant flight very successfully. The client was very satisfied."
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