Swiftair

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Swiftair ATR 72-200, Stuttgart Airport, September 2006.

Swiftair S.A. is an airline headquartered in Madrid, Spain.^[1] It operates scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo flights in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Its main base is Barajas International Airport, Madrid.^{[citation needed]}

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The airline was founded in 1986.^[2] It wholly owns subsidiary Mediterranean Air Freight. Currently Swiftair is also a UN contractor with two MD-83 based in Khartoum (Sudan) for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.^{[citation needed]}

The Swiftair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 19 March 2011 (2011 -03-19)^[update]) [1]:

6 ATR 42
- 1 ATR 42-300
- 4 ATR 42-300F
- 1 ATR 42-300QC
14 ATR 72
- 5 ATR 72-200 (two aircraft are operated for the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service and one aircraft is operated for Maya Island Air)
- 6 ATR 72-200F
- 3 ATR 72-500 (two of them operated for Caribbean Airlines)
7 Boeing 737-300F (four aircraft are operated for European Air Transport and one aircraft is operated for TNT Airways)
10 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia (Cargo division)
6 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (two aircraft are operated for Gryphon Airlines and two aircraft are operated for the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service)

Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F (converted freighter) from Bedek Aviation (Israel Aerospace Industries) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet. The first aircraft was delivered in May 2007 on lease from AWAS.^[3]

^ "Contact." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011. "Ingeniero Torres Quevedo, 14 | Pol. Ind. “Fin de Semana” Crta. Madrid/Barcelona Km. 13.100 | 28022 - Madrid."
^ "About us." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011.
^ "ATR 72 order for Swiftair". Airliner World: p. 6. July 2007.