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Lufthansa

Last Updated: 6th August 2018
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Status:Active
Operating Dates: 1955 - date
Code: LH : DLH
Country: Germany
Region: Europe
Genealogy: Deutsche Luft-Reederei (DLR) >Deutscher Aero Llyod + Junkers Luftverkehr =>Deutsche Luft Hansa >Lufthansa
Aircraft: A.300-600 | A.300-600R | A.300B2 | A.300B4 | A310-200 (launch customer with Swissair) | A.310-300 | A.319-100 | A.319CJ | A.320-200 | A.321-100 | A.321-200 | A.330-200 | A.330-300 | A.340-200 | A.340-300 | A.340-600 | A.380-800 | B.707-320C | B.707-330B | B.707-430 | B.720-030 | B.727-200 Adv. | B.727-30 | B.737-100 (launch customer) | B.737-200 | B.737-300 | B.737-500 | B.747-100 | B.747-200B | B.747-200B Combi | B.747-400 | B.747-400 Combi | B.747-8i | Boeing BBJ | C-46 Commando | CV.340 | CV.440 | DC.10-30 | DC.3 | DC.8-50 | L-049 Constellation | L-1049G Super Constellation | L-1649 Starliner | Viscount 800
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Lufthansa was recreated on 06Jan1953 as Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) and was renamed Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft on 06Aug1954. First flight was on 01Apr1955. LUFTHANSA was originally founded in Berlin in 1926 as a consolidated German airline by the merger of DEUTSCHE AERO-LLOYD and JUNKERS LUFTVERKEHR. Acquired AUSTRIAN AIRLINES as a result of the German annexation of Austria in 1939. Went into liquidation as a result of WWII in 1945. In1953, LUFTAG was founded in Colgne and renamed to LUFTHANSA in 1954. This new German airline began operations in 1955

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