Private company
Nightexpress
German cargo airline
Nightexpress Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH was a small German cargo airline based at Frankfurt Airport. In 2013, the company was bought by BDA (Bespoke Distribution Aviation). The company ceased operations in late 2017.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- HeadquartersFrankfurt Airport1
- Websitewww.nightexpress.de/index.php?id=willkommen&L=1
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Nightexpress Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH was a small German cargo airline based at Frankfurt Airport. In 2013, the company was bought by BDA (Bespoke Distribution Aviation). The company ceased operations in late 2017.2
Products and brands
Destinations
Nightexpress operated scheduled and chartered cargo flights from Frankfurt Airport, most of which were either to Birmingham Airport or Coventry Airport.
Fleet
As of December 2015, the Nightexpress fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
From Wikipedia’s article on Nightexpress, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
Controversies and legal
Accidents and incidents
On 30 June 1999 at 02:41 UTC, Nightexpress Flight 114, a Beechcraft Model 99 (registered D-IBEX) crashed near Liège Airport, Belgium, killing the two pilots on board. The aircraft had left Luton Airport at 01:25 UTC for a cargo flight to Frankfurt Airport, when the pilots reported failures in both engines at 02:34 UTC. The aircraft was cleared to perform an emergency landing at either Brussels Airport or Liège Airport, but ultimately crashed 5 nautical miles short of the latter's runway.
From Wikipedia’s article on Nightexpress, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
Timeline
Links
- Websitewww.nightexpress.de/index.php?id=willkommen&L=11
- WikipediaNightexpress
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ326846
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataNightexpress on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaNightexpress on Wikipedia
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- 4Wikimedia CommonsNightexpress photo by Raimund Stehmann, GFDL