Skol Airlines

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Skol Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
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The airlines' operator certificate was revoked after it went bankrupt in 2022.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]

The bankruptcy trustee of LLC “Airline SKOL,” Alexey Belokopyt, has announced an open auction for the debtor’s helicopters. Four aircraft will be put up for sale. [7]

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

Accidents & Incidents

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Авиакомпания "СКОЛ" - О компании". Skol.ru. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  2. "Минус девять за бортом". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  3. "The EU Air Safety List".
  4. "EU blacklists Russia's SKOL but lifts ban on Moldovan carriers". www.flightglobal.com.
  5. "Минус девять за бортом". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  6. "SKOL AIRLINE WAS DECLARED BANKRUPT". rusbankrot.ru. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  7. "Авиакомпания «СКОЛ» продает вертолеты за 1,8 миллиарда".
  8. "Четыре человека погибли при крушении вертолета АС-350 в Ханты-Мансийском автономном округе". pp. Татар-информ (Tatar-inform).
  9. "Причиной катастрофы вертолета в ХМАО с 4 погибшими в ноябре 2015 г. стала дезориентация пилота". МАК - Урал || Интерфакс Россия. www.interfax-russia.ru.