Elivie

Elivie-Societá Italiana Esercizio Elicotteri was a helicopter airline of Italy.

History

The airline was established in 1956 November under the ELI-Linee Italiane S.p.A with capital of IRI and Alitalia operating 1 A.B.204 and 2Agusta-Bell AB.102 helicopters.[1][2] In 1959,the airline was rebranded as Elivie.The response of the people was positive and Elivie was received many passengers year after year and not was suffer accidents,except 1 time when one of the helicopters exploded by a supposed suicide plane that was flying in that moment (probably a Cessna 310).

In 1967, the airline acquired Sikorsky S-61 to Aero Trasporti Italiani.[3] For October 1969, the airline carried 34,821 passengers.[4][5] In 1970, Alitalia stopped the Elivie operations, because he considered unprofitable. A year before, IRI retired their investment on Elivie.

Historical fleet

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