Berkut Air Explained

Airline:	Berkut Air
Fleet Size:	6
Iata:	-
Icao:	BEC
Callsign:	BERKUT
Founded:	1999
Ceased:	2011
Headquarters:	Astana, Kazakhstan
Bases:	Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport

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

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.

Fleet

Current Fleet

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:

• 1 Antonov An-12, UP-AN205, Cargo
• 1 Fokker 100, UP-F1004, Charter
• 1 Yakovlev Yak-40, UP-Y4023, Charter
• 1 Tupolev Tu-154M, UN-85713, Charter
• 1 Boeing 747-200, 9G-MKS, Cargo

Notes and References

1. News: Directory: World Airlines . . 85 . 2007-03-27.
2. Web site: Berkut Air fleet details. AirFleets.net. 7 June 2017.
3. http://aviation-safety.net/database/operator/airline.php?var=8488 Information on Berkut at the Aviation Safety Network
4. Global Airline Guide 2019 (Part One). Airliner World. October 2019. 19.