News reports from Ghana suggest that Starbow Airlines may resume operations this summer. “Currently, as we speak, [Starbow] plan to come back in July,” Deputy Aviation Minister Kwabena Okyere Darko is reported to have said. “They are re-strategizing, re-organizing themselves.” The airline suspended operations on 26 November following an accident to its newly-delivered ATR72-500, and then dismissed […]
Ghana’s Starbow Airlines has shut down entirely. The airline had suspended operations on 26 November following an accident to its newly-delivered ATR72-500, and then dismissed many of its employees on 30 November. It’s sole operational aircraft, Avro RJ100 9G-SBE (msn E3332), was ferried to Malta on 30 November. A committee has been named […]
Ghana’s Starbow Airlines ferried Avro RJ100 9G-SBE (msn E3332) to Malta on 30 November. The airline suspended operations on 26 November following an accident to its newly-delivered ATR72-500, and then dismissed many of its employees on 30 November. The prospects of Starbow resuming operations thus appear to be grim. Recent news items on Starbow […]
Ghanaian Avro RJ operator Starbow Airlines suspended operations on 26 November following an accident to its newly-delivered ATR72-500. The ATR72 had been taking off from Accra on 25 November when it veered off the runway, apparently due to strong winds and heavy rain, and was damaged when it hit a perimeter […]
Aircraft and component broker Executive Jet Support (EJS) has acquired former Starbow BAe 146-300 D-AEJS (msn E3183 ex 9G-SBC) as a source for parts. Executive Jet Support, based near London Heathrow, provides commercial aircraft, engines, and airframe components to almost 200 operators in over 40 countries worldwide. German airline WDL has already purchased the main […]
Starbow Airlines took delivery of former Brussels Airlines Avro RJ100 9G-SBE (msn E3332). She was rolled out from the paintshop at Norwich on 16 September, wearing a modified color scheme, and departed to Accra the following day. Starbow once operated four BAe 146-300s, but 9G-SBA (msn E3125) has long been […]
Former Brussels Airlines Avro RJ100 OO-DWF (msn E3332) is being prepared for delivery to Ghana’s Starbow Airlines. She has been parked at Cranfield since 5 May, when she was returned off-lease to Falko Regional Aircraft Ltd. She was briefly re-registered as G-CJFV on 2 June, but this registration was never […]
Starbow Airlines has ferried BAe 146-300 9G-SBC (msn E3183) to Cranfield for a C check. She left Accra on 31 May, and arrived in Cranfield the following day, after stopping in Algiers and Bordeaux. 9G-SBC is Starbow’s last operational 146. Two of the airline’s other 146s (9G-SBB msn E3123 and […]
BAe 146-300 9G-SBC (msn E3183) of Starbow Airlines was ferried to Southend on 3 December for maintenance with Inflite. She departed back to Accra via Algiers on 22 December. She is currently Starbow’s only active 146. The airline also operates an ATR42 and a Q400, both of which are leased. […]
BAe 146-300 9G-SBB (msn E3123) of Starbow Airlines suffered substantial damage in a runway overrun at Tamale in northern Ghana on 6 October. She was arriving from Accra on flight S9 110 at 08:31 local time, when she landed long, and overran the usable portion of the runway. She punched through […]
