British Gulf International Co. LTDBritish Gulf International Co. LTD
28 May 2007 was a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and operating from Sharjah and Dubai. Its main base is Sharjah International Airport, with a hub at Dubai International Airport.

History

The company was established and started operations in July 1996 in Sharjah, UAE. British Gulf lost one of its Russian built AN-12 cargo planes on 13 November 2008 in Iraq. As from November 2009, the company is included in the list of airlines banned within the European Union. With the temporary 2009 ban on AN-12 operations within the UAE economic area made permanent one year later, the fate of British Gulf was in doubt. As of late 2012 the company's web presence is gone and some of the aircraft fleet are stored at Rivne in Ukraine.

Fleet

The British Gulf International Co. LTD fleet includes the following aircraft: *5

Antonov An-12 The Antonov An-12 (Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than thr ...

References

External links

British Gulf International Co. LTDArabian Supply Chain article on An-12 ban''Khaleej Times'' article on An-12 ban
Defunct airlines of the United Arab Emirates Airlines established in 1996 Defunct cargo airlines Cargo airlines of the United Arab Emirates Emirati companies established in 1996 {{UnitedArabEmirates-transport-stub