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Skol Airlines

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Skol Airlines
IATA ICAO Call sign
CDV SKOL
Founded2000
Ceased operations2022
HubsSurgut
Secondary hubsKhanty-Mansiysk
Fleet size35
HeadquartersSurgut
Websitehttp://www.skol.ru
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]

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The airlines' operator certificate was revoked after it went bankrupt in 2022.[5][6]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

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Aircraft type[1] Active Notes
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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c "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.
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