Skol Airlines
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Founded | 2000 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 2022 | ||||||
Hubs | Surgut | ||||||
Secondary hubs | Khanty-Mansiysk | ||||||
Fleet size | 35 | ||||||
Headquarters | Surgut | ||||||
Website | http://www.skol.ru |
Skol Airlines was a Russian charter operator providing regular passenger flights and cargo charters across Eastern and Western Siberia; its clients included Alrosa and Gazprom amongst others.[1] The company also had its own 23 hectare heliport, the 100-room hostel on-site, dining room, Mi-8 hangar, helicopter filling station and a certified aircraft maintenance base. The company was notable for its successful efforts to curtail the 2007 Greek forest fires.[1]
In mid-2021, Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency banned it from operating 30 helicopters and five light-engine L-410s due to debts to GTLK.[2]
As of December 2021, the airline was banned from operating within the European Union.[3][4]
The airlines' operator certificate was revoked after it went bankrupt in 2022.[5][6]
Fleet as of 2012[edit]
Aircraft type[1] | Active | Notes |
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Mil Mi-8T | 10 | |
Mil Mi-26T | 7 | |
Mil Mi-171 | 5 | |
Mil Mi-8AMT | 5 | |
Eurocopter AS350B3 | 3 | |
Yakovlev Yak-40 | 3 | VIP Configuration |
Cessna Caravan | 3 | |
Let L-410 Turbolet | 1 |
Accidents & Incidents[edit]
- On 21 October 2016, Skol Airlines Flight 9375, a Mi-8 helicopter with 19 passengers and a crew of 3 impacted terrain in poor weather conditions, with 19 fatalities.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Авиакомпания "СКОЛ" - О компании". Skol.ru. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
- ^ "Минус девять за бортом". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
- ^ "The EU Air Safety List".
- ^ "EU blacklists Russia's SKOL but lifts ban on Moldovan carriers". www.flightglobal.com.
- ^ "Минус девять за бортом". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
- ^ "SKOL AIRLINE WAS DECLARED BANKRUPT". rusbankrot.ru. Retrieved 2023-01-20.