Sakha Avia was an airline that operated in the Sakha Republic of Russia from 1992 until 2001.
History
Sakha Avia was founded in 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As Aeroflot was undergoing the upheavals brought about by the dissolution, its operations in Sakha were spun off as Yakutian Air Enterprises, and then later renamed Sakha Airlines.
The airline rebranded to Yakutia in 2002.
Fleet The airline operated the following aircraft types before it ceased operations: Airbus A310 Antonov An-12 Antonov An-24 Ilyushin Il-76M Let L-410 Turbolet Tupolev Tu-154M Yakovlev Yak-40 A number of helicopters
Destinations Sakha Avia till 2001 operated a number of routes: Barnaul - Barnaul Airport Beijing - Beijing Capital International Airport Blagoveshchensk - Ignatyevo Airport Chita - Kadala Airport Irkutsk - International Airport Irkutsk Khabarovsk - Khabarovsk Novy Airport Krasnoyarsk - Krasnoyarsk Cheremshanka Airport Krasnoyarsk - Yemelyanovo Airport Moscow - Domodedovo International Airport Moscow - Sheremetyevo International Airport Novosibirsk - Tolmachevo Airport Omsk - Omsk Tsentralny Airport Saint Petersburg - Pulkovo Airport Tokyo - Narita International Airport Tomsk - Bogashevo Airport Ulan-Ude - Baikal International Airport Vladivostok - Vladivostok International Airport Yakutsk - Yakutsk Airportbase Yekaterinburg - Koltsovo Airport + several routes in Yakutia Republic
Incidents 26 August 1993, the Let L-410 Turbolet flying from Kutana to Aldan via Uchur, crashed shortly near Aldan Airport, the aircrash was due to the aircraft overload. All the members of crew and all the passengers died. Following the statistics that was the biggest aircrash as for the aircraft overall and as for the republic Yakutia.publisher=ru|Катастрофа Let L-410 в Алдане 13 July 2002, a Sakha Avia An-24RV (RA-46670) landed wheels-up at Yakutsk Airport during a training flight due to crew error; all four crew survived, but the aircraft was written off.
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