Samarkand Airways ( uz, Samarqand Havo Yo’llari, ) was an airline based in Uzbekistan that performed passenger and cargo charter flights. Established in 2005 out a joint American-Uzbekistani venture based out of
Kentucky
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, the parent company, Universal Mobility Solutions, provided the aircraft for the fleet. The airline intended to establish a regular scheduled cargo route out of Tashkent to Dushanbe in 2008 using
Ilyushin Il-76
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and
Antonov An-12
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aircraft, but such a route was not established. Passenger charters were carried out on
Tupolev Tu-154
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,
Yakolev Yak-40 and
Avro RJ-85 aircraft, while chartered cargo flights used an
Antonov An-26
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.
While the airline still technically exists, its website is gone and it is not in operation.
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{{Airlines of Uzbekistan
Airlines of Uzbekistan
Airlines established in 2005