Qeshm Air ( fa, هواپیمایی قشم, ''Hevapeimayi-ye Qeshm'') is an Iranian airline; it has its headquarters in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

and operates scheduled domestic and international passenger services as well as charter flights. The airline was founded in 1993 as Faraz Qeshm Airline. Qeshm Air is different with Fars Air Qeshm.

History

Qeshm Air was founded in 1993 and established its services by leasing airplanes from other airlines. The company's first routes were from

to Qeshm, and from Tehran to

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. By the year 2000, Qeshm Air had seven aircraft in its fleet.

Destinations

Fleet

Current fleet

As of October 2021, the Qeshm Air fleet consisted of the following aircraft: Qeshm Airlines Airbus A300B4-605R on short finals at Mehrabad Airport

Qeshm Airlines Airbus A300B4-605R on short finals at Mehrabad Airport

Former fleet

Qeshm Airlines formerly operated these aircraft: *

Airbus A300B4 The Airbus A300 is a wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Airbus. In September 1967, aircraft manufacturers in the United Kingdom, France, and West Germany signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a large airliner. Wes ...

Airbus A319-100 The Airbus A319 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin-engine jet airliners manufactured by Airbus. The A319 carries 124 to 156 passengers and has a maximum range of . Final assem ...

* Airbus A321-100 * Fokker 50 *

McDonnell Douglas MD-83 The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas. It was produced by the developer company until August 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The MD-80 was the second gene ...

* Tupolev Tu-154M *

Yakovlev Yak-40 The Yakovlev Yak-40 (russian: Яковлев Як-40; NATO reporting name: Codling) is a regional jet designed by Yakovlev. The trijet's maiden flight was in 1966, and it was in production from 1967 to 1981. Introduced in September 1968, the ...

Yakovlev Yak-42D The Yakovlev Yak-42 (russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airlin ...

Accidents and incidents

* On 17 May 2001, a Faraz Qeshm Airlines

departed from Tehran on a flight to

Gorgan Airport Gorgan Airport ( fa, فرودگاه گرگان) is an international airport located in the city of Gorgan, Iran. The airport is located 2 km west of the Gorgan-Aq Qala Highway and 6 km north of Gorgan, the capital of Golestan province ...

carrying 30 people; including the Iranian Transport Minister Rahman Dadman, two deputy ministers and seven more members of parliament. It was forced to divert due to bad weather conditions and was later discovered crashed in the

Alborz mountains The Alborz ( fa, البرز) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs no ...

, near

Sari A sari (sometimes also saree or shari)The name of the garment in various regional languages include: * as, শাৰী, xārī, translit-std=ISO * bn, শাড়ি, śāṛi, translit-std=ISO * gu, સાડી, sāḍī, translit-std ...

, Iran. All on board perished.Detailed Aircraft Information
The Soviet Transport Database - Scramble

References

External links

* Airlines of Iran Airlines established in 1993 Iranian brands Iranian companies established in 1993 {{Iran-transport-stub