Special Air Serivce VAG
“Whenever, where ever!”
Welcome to Special Air Service Virtual Airlines Group! We are the airline you call for all your specific aviation needs! Whether it’s flying air freight from the grass strip close to your factory, or a private air charter to places where the competition doesn’t fly. Special Air Service is the one to call!
The concept
Special Air Service Virtual Airline Group is a group of virtual airlines providing all kind of aviation services, whether its passenger services, from regular scheduled routes to VIP air charters of scenic flights, to air freight and special operations. Special Air Services has its main base at EHLE Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands with many (future) bases and hubs in different parts of the world for its subsidiary airlines.
Special Air Service throughly is a community driven virtual airline! We’re building up our airlines together with our Patreons. Together we decide what new markets we’re opening up, which airports will form our new hubs and which aircraft will be added to the fleet of the subsidiary airlines. From GA to the big birds, Special Air Service VAG will have something you’ll like!
Originis
Special Air Service is a virtual airline founded by PAPA HOTEL Dutch Scenery Design’s developer Ronald Fleurbaaij. As an avid flight simmer himself, Ronald wanted to challenge himself in the virtual skies. He started a YouTube channel where he started a new company in Air Hauler 2, before switching the airline to OnAir Company.
Special Air Service started as a small, one man owner/operator company, flying cargo and passenger operations with just the one Cessna C172, a small general aviation, fixed wing aircraft. Flying in and out of small airstrips.
Expansion plans
While Special Air Service VAG might still be very small for now, with only a hub at EHLE Lelystad Airport, we’ve got BIG plans for our virtual airline. The name Virtual Airline Group has deliberately been chosen. From our home base in the Netherlands, we’re planning to open new hub’s and airlines in new markets. Think about Special Air Service Alps to fly the beautiful mountain region in the center of Europe, Special Air Service UK to serve the British Isles or Orange Jets (OJ for short) as our VIP charter company or Special OPS, flying cargo with types of aircraft from the golden age of aviation that deserve to keep being flown as part of our aviation heritage. All subsidiary airlines will their own unique liveries. Which new hub’s and airlines will be started up, that’s for our Patreon’s to decide!
Our fleet
Our fleet of aircraft is still very small, but already growing! Special Air Service VAG started out as just a small company, with a single pilot who bought a second hand Cessna C172SP Skyhawk. It’s arguably one of the most reliable and widely used general aviation aircraft and offered a great platform to build up on.
We took the registration PH-HDA for our first airframe and painted it into our new companies colours. After doing a couple of missions with the aircraft and welcoming new pilots to the airline, Special Air Service found another fantastic used aircraft in the southern outskirts of the Transivania region in Romania. We’ve flown the aircraft back to our base at EHLE Lelystad Airport, where it’s currently being overhauled, getting new avionics, paint job and will take the registration PH-HDB.
Which aircraft we’ll add to our growing fleet from here? That’s up to the members of our airline! For the near future, we’re looking for a Cessna C207 Stationair II, Cessna C208 Grand Caravan and/or an Cessna CJ4 business jet. What would you recommend? Consider becoming a Patreon and join our Special Air Service Virtual Airline Group. Help us decide which direction to take the VA in and grow our fleet of aircraft!
OnAir Company
Special Air Service Virtual Airline Group is run in OnAir Company, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) that lets you run your own virtual airline in a persistent world that runs in real-time. Special Air Service VAG is run in the Thunder server, the server with the highest difficulty, but has no limit on members joining our VA.
Unlike with many other virtual airlines, Special Air Service VAG doesn’t just offer you fixed passenger routes. By running the VA in OnAir Company, we can offer a wide variety of missions for our member pilots:
Goods transport
Passengers
Fragile
Dangerous materials
Medical
Executive (VIP charters)
Perishable goods
Event logistics
Sight seeing
Rescue missions
Offshore
Fire fighting
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Join the airline!
You can now join the airline yourself! To further grow the fan experience at PAPA HOTEL Dutch Scenery Design, we’ve started a Patreon program. Part of this program is the offer to join our virtual airline as First Officer, Captain or Line Captain!
Embark on an exciting journey and join us at Special Air Service VAG! If you’re a user of OnAir Company, we would like to invite you to join our virtual airline today by becoming a First Officer, Captain or Line Captain on our Patreon. Whether you're a seasoned pilot or a newcomer to the skies, you're looking for casual fun, a challenge, or a community of like-minded aviation enthusiasts, Special Air Service VAG offers it all. Fly within just a single company or the entire group, it’s up to you. Take to the skies, make strategic decisions, and watch your virtual airline take flight!
What’s in it for you?
The first tier where you can join our virtual airline is as First Officer! As a FO you will not only support PAPA HOTEL Dutch Scenery Design in it’s efforts to create wonderful products for our beloved simulator, you’ll also get to use all the Special Air Service VAG facilities at our main base Lelystad Airport. This means that you’ll get the custom made airline scenery for PAPA HOTEL’s version of EHLE Lelystad Airport for MSFS as part of your membership. That may be small for now, but will grow with new (fictional) facilities with the growth of the airline. Plus you’ll get all the custom Special Air Service liveries made for the fleet of our airline!
As Captain, we offer you a senior position within our community! This means you will not only be able to fly for our company, you will get the ability to add jobs to the virtual airline’s roaster, plus you get voting rights on new aircraft and hubs!
As Line Captain you’ve just became a legend at PAPA HOTEL Dutch Scenery Design and our virtual airline!
And that’s not all, you’ll get all the extra perks that are associated with your rank at the PAPA HOTEL Discord! Click here for all Patreon benefits.
Please note: to join the company, for now you’d need to have a subscription to OnAir Company.
You can join Special Air Service VAG as a First Officer, Captain or Line Captain today by becoming a Patreon! Help shape the future of our virtual airline while enjoying the perks of being part of this aviation journey.