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Berkut Air
IATA ICAO Call sign
- BEC BERKUT
Founded1999
Ceased operations2011
Operating basesNursultan Nazarbayev International Airport
Fleet size6
HeadquartersNur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

State Air Company Berkut, commonly known as Berkut Air, was an airline based in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, operated Government charter flights out of Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport.[1][2]

History

Berkut was founded in 1999.[3] Except all other commercial Kazakh airlines, it was not banned from entering EU airspace in April 2009, due to the high standards of technical maintenance.[3]

Fleet

Current Fleet

Boeing 757-200 of Berkut Air operated by the Government of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan Government Airbus A330-200

The Berkut Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of August 2019):[4]

Berkut Air Fleet
Aircraft In
Service
Orders Passengers Notes
Airbus A320-214 Prestige 1
Boeing 757-200 1
Bombardier Challenger 850 1
Ilyushin Il-76TD 1
Tupolev Tu-134AK 1
Tupolev Tu-134SH 1
Total 6

Former fleet

The airline previously operated the following aircraft:

References

  1. ^ "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 85.
  2. ^ "Berkut Air fleet details". AirFleets.net. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  3. ^ a b Information on Berkut at the Aviation Safety Network
  4. ^ "Global Airline Guide 2019 (Part One)". Airliner World (October 2019): 19.