Berkut Air

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

Berkut Air
Kazakhstan Government Airbus A330-200 Schmid
IATA ICAO Callsign
- BEC BEC
Founded1999
Ceased operations2011
Operating basesNursultan Nazarbayev International Airport
Fleet size6
HeadquartersNur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

History

Berkut was founded in 1999.[3] Along with all other commercial Kazakh airlines with the exception of Air Astana, it was banned from entering EU airspace in April 2009, due to the country's poor maintenance standards.[3]

In 2011 the airline was rebranded as Bek Air.

Fleet

Current Fleet
Boeing 757-200 of Berkut Air operated by the Government of Kazakhstan

The Berkut Air fleet consists 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:

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References
  1. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-03-27. p. 85.
  2. "Berkut Air fleet details". AirFleets.net. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  3. Information on Berkut at the Aviation Safety Network
  4. "Global Airline Guide 2019 (Part One)". Airliner World (October 2019): 19.


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