Notes to Editors
- 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
- We specialise in moving urgent cargo, heavy and outsize pieces, high value commodities, dangerous goods and AOG parts
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- We provide ACMI, wet, damp and dry leasing solutions for many of the world’s largest airlines
- We also provide General Sales Agency (GSA), Station Management and Ground Handling Services
- Our operations division, Paragon Global Flight Support provides 24 hour outsourced flight support
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Outstanding CF Ostende flies very interesting cargo in the new year!
7th February 2006
AOG engine coil to Banjul
Chapman Freeborn’s Ostende office started the New Year with some
very interesting cargo charters indeed!
Late in the evening of Saturday 8th January, our Duty Officer received
a call from a major airline with an AOG problem. A Boeing 767 was
stranded in Banjul, Gambia, along with over 200 passengers, following a
bird strike, and a new engine coil was needed straight away.
A
replacement coil was sourced in Nimes, France and our experience immediately
alerted us that this was an AN12 freighter requirement. Of course,
there was nothing sat in the nearby locality at this time, but we found
one which was immediately available out of Sofia.
As Saturday 8th was a national holiday in Bulgaria, the aircraft flew to
Nimes at the first possible opportunity after permits and traffic rights
were arranged landing at 11:00Z on Sunday 9th for quick loading of the new
part. There was a brief 30 mins delay departing from Nimes owing to
heavy snowfall and then the aircraft departed for nonstop flight to Banjul,
arriving 21:50Z, a pretty rapid solution to what was a very pressing problem
for a Dutch airline. Perhaps the holidaymakers were a little disappointed
that we got the replacement there so quickly as they were enjoying a little
unplanned extension to their Gambian vacation!
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