Alrosa Airlines

Alrosa Airlines
IATA code :	6R
ICAO code :	DRU
Call sign :	MIRNY
Founding:	1992
Seat:	Mirny , Russia
Home airport :	Mirny Airport Moscow Domodedovo Airport
Company form:	Private limited company
Management:	Andrei Gulov
Passenger volume:	440,647 (2017)
Freight volume:	9615 t (2017)
Fleet size:	33 (including helicopter)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.alrosa.aero

Alrosa Airlines ( Russian АО Авиакомпания АЛРОСА ) is a Russian airline based at Mirny Airport in the Sakha Republic . It was founded in 1992 as Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise . The airline was given its current name as part of a restructuring in early 2013, in which the maintenance on the ground and the operation of several smaller airports in northeast Russia were separated from the flight business. The airline is a subsidiary of the mining company ALROSA , based in Mirny .

fleet

Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft in old livery

Antonov An-38

The airline's Boeing 737-700

As a special feature, Alrosa operated the last of its three Tupolev Tu-134B with the registration number RA-65693 until spring 2019 . This aircraft performed the last regular passenger flight of this type on May 22, 2019.

As of July 2016, the Alrosa Airlines fleet consisted of 14 aircraft and 19 helicopters:

Planes

• 03 Boeing 737-800
• 02 Tupolev Tu-154M
• 03 Antonov An-24PB
• 01 Antonov An-38-100
• 02 Antonov An-2
• 01 Ilyushin Il-76TD (transport aircraft)
• 01 Antonov An-26-100 (transport aircraft)

helicopter

• 01 Mil Mi-26T (transport helicopter)
• 18 Mil Mi-8 (different versions: 15 Mi-8T, 1 Mi-8MTB-1, 1 Mi-171)

In September 2014, the airline signed a one-year lease agreement with Yakutia Airlines for a De Havilland DHC-8-400 aircraft . This aircraft was still on the fleet page of the Alrosa Airlines website in July 2016

In August 2013 it became known that Lufthansa Technik would take over the component supply for the new Boeing 737NG fleet.

Incidents

• On September 7, 2010, a Tu-154 ( registration number : RA-85684) of the airline had to make an emergency landing at the abandoned military airfield Ischma in the Komi Republic in Russia after a serious technical defect . Before that, the entire on-board electronics had failed at an altitude of 10,000 meters. In addition, the brake flaps did not work, so that the aircraft had to land at too high a speed on the runway, which is too short at 1,200 meters. The machine sped 200 meters over the runway. All 72 passengers on board and 9 crew members survived the landing unharmed. The two pilots Andrei Lamanow and Evgeny Novosselow were honored with the honorary title Hero of the Russian Federation on November 16, 2010 . The machine was pulled back onto the runway and started on March 24, 2011 after minor repairs in the direction of Uchta. The start took place on the 1200 meter long runway covered with snow and ice. After only 800 meters, the machine took off safely, flown by two test pilots. After a major technical inspection, the machine was in service until November 2018, when it was flown over to Novosibirsk-Tolmachovo and made ready for an exhibition there.

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  The aircraft involved in the accident after being repaired at Novosibirsk Airport in June 2012

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  The crew of the aircraft at the award ceremony in the Kremlin

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alrosa Airlines website (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alrosa Airlines website; About us. (No longer available online.) Alrosa Airlines, archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; Retrieved July 10, 2016 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Portrait of the airline on the group website of ALROSA. ALROSA, accessed July 10, 2016 (Russian). 
3. ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 236 KB) Retrieved January 27, 2018 (Russian). 
4. ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Freight Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 238 KB) Retrieved January 27, 2018 (Russian). 
5. ↑ The Tu-134 made its last passenger flight in Russia , TASS, May 22, 2019 (Russian)
6. ↑ Alrosa Airlines' fleet on its own website. (No longer available online.) Alrosa Airlines, archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Certificate register of Russian airlines. (No longer available online.) Russian Aviation Agency, archived from the original on March 19, 2016 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Alrosa Airlines leases a DHC-8-400 from Yakutia Airlines. ato.ru, October 30, 2014, accessed July 4, 2016 (Russian). 
9. ↑ Alrosa Airlines' fleet on its own website. (No longer available online.) Alrosa Airlines, archived from the original on July 10, 2016 ; Retrieved July 4, 2016 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Boeing 737 component supply for Alrosa Airlines. Lufthansa Technik, August 30, 2013, accessed on July 10, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Passenger aircraft has to make an emergency landing in Russia. Spiegel online, September 8, 2010, accessed July 10, 2016 . 
12. ^ Ceremony of presenting state decorations to Tu-154 crew. Russian Presidential Administration , November 16, 2010, accessed July 10, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Tu-154M aircraft Izhma installed in the museum of the Tolmachevo airport , ruaviation.com, October 18, 2018