airsLLide No. 1244: SE-DEE, Nord Aviation SN-601 Corvette, Sterling Airways, Billund, July 5, 1987
The Danish charter airline Sterling Airways was famous for maintaining flights to an intercontinental portfolio of destinations, serving transatlantic routes and Asian as well as Middle Eastern routes with its fleet of narrow body short to medium range Sud Aviation Caravelle and Boeing 727 aircraft.
The nature of such operations, requiring fuel stops at pre-defined locations, also required relief crews to either travel along with the flights, or to be shuttled to the location of the fuel stop. For the latter purpose, it relied on a small fleet of two Aerospatiale Corvette business jets which it flew in a slightly adapted regular color scheme of its airliners. Apart from crew transfers, Sterling also ventured into offering ad-hoc corporate charters with the Corvettes. This business modell however suffered a blow in 1975 when a Corvette crashed short of Nice's runway 05 following a dual engine failure, killing two crew and eight corporate passengers from Sweden and the UK.



















