SPARFELL Luftfahrt (LDX, Vienna) has taken delivery of its first GVII-G500. OE-IDZ (msn 72151) was ferried from the Gulfstream Aerospace facilities at Savannah International to Vienna on March 3, 2025.
This is the first of three aircraft SPARFELL expects to induct in the first half of 2025, as managing director Bernhard Wipfler told ch-aviation in an exclusive interview in late 2024. The operator plans to add two Bombardier Business Aircraft, one registered in Austria and the other likely to join the air operator's certificate (AOC) of SPARFELL Malta.
Following this addition, SPARFELL's Austrian fleet comprises 17 aircraft, including an ACJ319-100, expected to enter service by summer 2025, two Challenger 300s, three Challenger 350s, a Global Express XRS, two Global 7500s, a Citation Jet 2+, a Falcon 7X, a Legacy 500, a Praetor 600, a G280, the newly added GVII-G500, a G650(ER), and a G650ER.
SPARFELL Malta already operates a GVII-G500, inducted in 2023, alongside a Global 6000, a Global 6500, and a Global 7500.
