Centre-Avia Airlines (Авиакомпания "ЦЕНТР-АВИА") was an

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based in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

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, operating domestic and international services. Its main base was

Bykovo Airport Bykovo (russian: link=no, Быково) was a small regional airport serving Moscow, Russia, of which only the runway remains. The airport was located about southeast of the city along the Ryazan highway and railway close to the town of Zhuko ...

, Moscow, from where it operated

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s, plus, on working days, a scheduled flight from

Moscow Domodedovo Airport Domodedovo Airport ( rus, links=no, Домодедово аэропорт, p=dəmɐˈdʲɛdəvə) (IATA: DME, ICAO: UUDD), formally Domodedovo Mikhail Lomonosov International Airport, is an international airport serving Moscow, the capital of Rus ...

Nizhny Novgorod International Airport Strigino Airport (russian: Аэропорт Стригино ) (also referred to as Nizhny Novgorod International Airport (russian: Международный аэропорт Нижний Новгород)) is the international airport servin ...

. In March 2007, the aircraft fleet of Centre-Avia consisted of four

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History

Centre-Avia was founded in 2000List of airlines from Russia, at airlineupdate.com
and was owned by Bykovo Aircraft Repair Plant (29.4%), Bykovo Airport (20%), MRIK Investment (20%) and Resourcetrustbank (10.8%). In 2010, the company was liquidated.

References

External links

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Centre-Avia official website
Companies based in Moscow Airlines established in 2000 Airlines disestablished in 2010 Defunct airlines of Russia {{Russia-airline-stub