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Skymaster Airlines

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Brazilian cargo airline

Skymaster Airlines was a cargo airline based in Manaus, Brazil. It operated charter cargo services in Brazil and other countries in the Americas.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded1
Boeing 707-351C, Skymaster Airlines AN0018154
Photo: Jerome Krier, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons5

Skymaster Airlines was a cargo airline based in Manaus, Brazil. It operated charter cargo services in Brazil and other countries in the Americas.2

The story

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.

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Products and brands

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

5 Boeing 707-300F

1 Douglas DC-8-62CF

2 Douglas DC-8-63CF

From Wikipedia’s article on Skymaster Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1995Founded Founded1