Aviastar-TU Airlines (russian: Авиастар-ТУ) is a cargo

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which operates principally out of

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, Russia. Its headquarters is located in

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History

The airline began operating domestic and international charter flights in 2000. Aviastar-TU, as an aircraft operator, has a historical affiliation with

Aviastar-SP CJSC Aviastar- SP (russian: «Авиастар-СП») is a Russian aircraft factory based in Ulyanovsk and founded in 1976. It is a closed shares joint stock company. It replaced the Soviet Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex and manufactures t ...

, an aircraft builder. After the incident of Flight 1906, the

Federal Air Transport Agency The Federal Air Transport Agency (russian: Федеральное агентство воздушного транспорта - ''Federalnoye agentstvo vozdushnogo transporta'', ''FAVT''), also known as Rosaviatsiya (russian: Росавиац� ...

imposed a ban on passenger transport due to the airline's lack of a spare aircraft. In November 2011, after a number of deficiencies were identified by European inspectors, the European Aviation Safety Agency also imposed an additional ban on flights to EU countries, which was lifted at the end of December 2011. On 8 April 2022 the US Department of Commerce restricted flights on aircraft manufactured in the US for

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Aviastar Aviastar-TU Airlines (russian: Авиастар-ТУ) is a cargo charter airline which operates principally out of Ramenskoye Airport in Moscow, Russia. Its headquarters is located in Zhukovsky, Moscow Oblast. History The airline began operatin ...

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, Rossiya and

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. It seems the US wants to reclaim ownership of the intellectual property. On 16 June the US broadened its restrictions on the six airlines after violations of the sanctions regime were detected. The effect of the restrictions is to ground the US-manufactured part of its fleet.

Fleet

Current fleet

The Aviastar-TU fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of January 2022):

Former fleet

Aviastar-TU fleet formerly operated the following aircraft:

Accidents and incidents

*On 22 March 2010,

Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 was a Tupolev Tu-204 that crash-landed while attempting to land at Domodedovo airport, Moscow, Russia, in heavy fog on 22 March 2010. The aircraft of Aviastar-TU Airlines was on a ferry flight from Hurghada Internation ...

, a

Tupolev Tu-204-100 The Tupolev Tu-204 (russian: Туполев Ту-204) is a twin-engined medium- range narrow-body jet airliner capable of carrying 210 passengers, designed by Tupolev and produced by Aviastar-SP and Kazan Aircraft Production Association. Firs ...

(RA-64011) crashed on approach to

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. Only eight crew members were on board, and all of them survived. Immediately upon the accident, the Russian aviation supervisory authority suspended Aviastar-TU from carrying passengers, pending an examination of the airline's flight operations.See a
Archived News Report
originally published on 22 March 2010 a

See als
''The Aviation Herald'', 22 March 2010
In September 2010, the Russian aviation supervisory authority, МАК, released its final report into the accident. The cause of the accident was attributed to pilot error, with a number of factors contributing to the accident including inadequate crew training and lack of cockpit resource management, failure of autoflight systems and regulatory violations by Aviastar-TU. *On August 24, 2016, a Tupolev Tu-204-100C (RA-64021) operating Flight 9625, suffered a hard landing at

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. Information from the investigation shows that the aircraft bounced on touchdown, the spoilers then automatically extended, after which the aircraft landed hard with an acceleration of +3,05G. The aircraft taxied to the parking position, where examination revealed that the rear spar of the wing sustained. All 4 crew members on board were safely evacuated. *On January 8, 2022, a Tupolev Tu-204-100C (RA-64032), operating Flight 6534 for

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, was written off after a fire started during pushback from its gate at

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and burnt through the fuselage, causing the rear of the aircraft to collapse. All 8 crew members on board were safely evacuated.

References

External links

Official website
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