Air Urga is an airline

Airline

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 based in Kirovohrad

Kirovohrad

Kirovohrad , formerly Yelisavetgrad, is a city in central Ukraine. It is located on the Inhul River. It is a motorway junction. Pop. 239,400 ....

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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. It operates international charter passenger and cargo flights from various Ukrainian airports to destinations in Greece

Greece

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, Slovakia

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, the Republic of Macedonia

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, Turkey

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, Syria

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, United Arab Emirates

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, Germany

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, Italy

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, Denmark

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, Bulgaria

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, and Cyprus

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. Its main bases are Kirovohrad Airport (KGO) and Kryvyi Rih International Airport

Kryvyi Rih International Airport

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 (KWG).

History

The airline was established and started operations in August 1993. It was founded as International Joint Stock Aviation Company URGA, initially concentrating on charter flights. Regular passenger flights from Kiev

Kiev

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 and Kryvyi Rih

Kryvyi Rih

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 were added in May 1997. Air Urga is owned by the State Property Fund of Ukraine (51%) and American International Consulting Corp (43.5%). It has 378 employees.

Fleet

The Air Urga fleet includes the following aircraft (at March 2007):

• 4 Antonov An-24
  Antonov An-24
  The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau from 1957.-Design and development:...
  
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• 6 Antonov An-24
  Antonov An-24
  The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau from 1957.-Design and development:...
  
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• 1 Antonov An-26
  Antonov An-26
  The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the USSR from 12 March 1968.-Development:...
  
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• 10 Antonov An-26
  Antonov An-26
  The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the USSR from 12 March 1968.-Development:...
  
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• 2 Antonov An-148
  Antonov An-148
  The Antonov An-148 Antonov Design Bureau from Kiev, Ukraine, is a regional jet aircraft designed by the Ukrainian Antonov Design Bureau and produced by Ukraine's Kiev Aviation Plant AVIANT and Russia's Voronezh Aircraft Production Association. Development of the plane was started in the 1990s,...
  
  (on order)