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Skymaster Airlines was a cargo airline based in Manaus, Brazil. It operated charter cargo services in Brazil and other countries in the Americas.

Skymaster Airlines

IATA ICAO Callsign - SKC SKYMASTER AIR
Founded	1995
Ceased operations	2010
Hubs	Eduardo Gomes International Airport
Secondary hubs	São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport
Focus cities	None
Fleet size	0
Destinations	Continental - Domestic
Headquarters	Manaus, Brazil
Website	http://www.skymaster.com.br

History

The airline was established on 30 November 1995 and started operations in 1997.

On February 19, 2014, Skymaster along with BETA Cargo were fined by CADE (Brazilian antitrust court) a combined 83 million reais (US$35 million), for running a cartel that hampered competition and drove up bid prices of procurements by the country's state-owned postal service Correios.[1]

Fleet

The Skymaster Airlines fleet included the following aircraft in August 2006, but the maximum was 8 :[2]

• 5 Boeing 707-300F
• 1 Douglas DC-8-62CF
• 2 Douglas DC-8-63CF

Crashes and Incidents

• On 7 March 2001, a Skymaster Airlines 707-320C, registration PT-MST, landed hard on Runway 09R, São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil. As a result of the landing the undercarriage failed, damaging all four engines and injuring three people. The aircraft was subsequently written off.

See also

• List of defunct airlines of Brazil

References

External links

• Skymaster Airlines

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