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Berkut Air

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

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

History

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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

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Current Fleet

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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

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The airline previously operated the following aircraft:

References

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  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.
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