Skol Airlines

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Skol Airlines
IATA ICAO Callsign
CDVSKOL
Founded2000
Ceased operations2022
Hubs Surgut
Secondary hubs Khanty-Mansiysk
Fleet size35
Headquarters Surgut
Website http://www.skol.ru
VIP Yakovlev Yak-40 Skol Yakovlev Yak-40 Pavel.jpg
VIP Yakovlev Yak-40

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]

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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The airlines' operator certificate was revoked after it went bankrupt in 2022.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

Aircraft type [1] ActiveNotes
Mil Mi-8T 10
Mil Mi-26T 7
Mil Mi-171 5
Mil Mi-8AMT 5
Eurocopter AS350B3 3
Yakovlev Yak-40 3VIP Configuration
Cessna Caravan 3
Let L-410 Turbolet 1

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