Atran, LLC (russian: ООО «Атран») is a

cargo airline Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of air cargo, cargo by air. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines. In 2018, airline ...

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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. It operates cargo charters in

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and the CIS. Its main base is

Domodedovo International Airport Domodedovo may refer to: * Domodedovo International Airport, an airport in Russia * Domodedovo (town), a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia * Domodedovo District, an administrative raion of Moscow Oblast, Russia * Domodedovo Airlines, a defunct Russian a ...

, Moscow.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1942 as an

Aeroflot PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (russian: ПАО "Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии", ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; russian: Аэрофлот, , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. The ...

agency, with the name Moscow Aviation Enterprise. The original function of the airline was to deliver spare parts for aircraft. In 1962 the airline had started operations of heavy freighters, and by the 1980 had a fleet of 29 covering the entire

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

and changing its name to Transport Aviation. In 1990, the company was created as the first independent airline in the Soviet Union and at the same time changing its name to Aviatrans. It became a private public limited liability company in 1993. In January 1997 the name ATRAN began being used. Since 2011 Atran has been a subsidiary of

Volga-Dnepr Group Volga-Dnepr Group is a Russian airline holding company headquartered in Moscow. It is a world leader in the global market for the movement of oversize, unique and heavy air cargo. The group’s core business activities are charter cargo operation ...

. As of March 2022, ATRAN was forced to suspend all operations due to sanctions against Russia.aircargonews.net - VDG confirms suspension of AirBridgeCargo and Atran operations
21 March 2022

Fleet

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Current fleet

As of January 2020, the Atran fleet consists of the following aircraft:Atran fleet
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Previously operated

Atran has previously operated the following aircraft types:

Incidents and accidents

On 29 July 2007, an Atran

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 th ...

, registration RA-93912, crashed 4 km from

after taking off on a flight on the route Moscow-Omsk-Bratsk, killing 7 crew members.

References

External links

Official website (Russian)
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