Moscow Airways

File:Moscow Airways Ilyushin Il-62 Goetting.jpgM at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia. (1994)]]

It began operating in 1991, flying passengers and airfreight.{{cite book |last=Morton |first=John K. |title=Flying Freighters |url=https://archive.org/details/flyingfreighters0000mort |url-access=registration |access-date=1 February 2012 |year=2001 |publisher=MBI Publishing |location=Osceola, Wisconsin |isbn=978-0-7603-1132-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/flyingfreighters0000mort/page/81 81] |quote=One of the Il-76s to receive a more colourful livery was RA-76498, which was ... [in] Sharjah in June 1994. The freighter carries the colours of the now defunct Moscow Airways, a small cargo- and passenger-operator that commenced flying in 1991. The airline continued providing services for a further three years after [June 1994].}} Among the airline's destinations by 1993 were Sharjah (United Arab Emirates){{cite book |title=Middle East Economic Digest |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ya1WAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22 |access-date=3 February 2012 |volume=37 |year=1993 |issue = 39–51|publisher=MEED |isbn= |page=45 |quote=Since September, three new CIS operators have started a service to the emirate – Moscow Airways, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan Airways.}} and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), from where Moscow Airways ferried home South African Muslims returning from pilgrimage.{{cite book |title=South Africa, 1993: Official yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8f0wAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22 |access-date=3 February 2012 |year=1993 |publisher=South African Communication Service |location=Pretoria |isbn=978-0-7970-2797-8 |page=155 |quote=As from 15 June, Egypt Air and Aeroflot Moscow Airways institute direct charter flights from Jeddah in Saudi-Arabia to Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, in order to bring South African Moslems back from their annual pilgrimage ...}}

Moscow Airways operated, from 1993 to 1996, an Ilyushin Il-76TD (tail number RA-76498) that was built in 1982,{{cite book |title=Air pictorial: journal of the Air League |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72ApAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22 |access-date=2 February 2012 |volume=60 |year=1998 |publisher=Air League of the British Empire |location=London |isbn= |page=127}}{{cite web |url=http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Ilyushin%20Il-76%2F78%2F82&airlinesearch=Moscow+Airways&distinct_entry=true |title=Photo Search Results: 'Ilyushin Il-76/78/82', 'Moscow Airways' |work=Airliners.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324124051/http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Ilyushin%20Il-76%2F78%2F82&airlinesearch=Moscow+Airways&distinct_entry=true |archive-date=24 March 2012 |url-status=live |access-date=2 February 2012 |quote=RA-76498 (cn 0023442218) Line nr: # 31-05. Operated for Moscow Airways from 1993–1996 and for Continental Airways in 1997.}}{{cite book |last=Morton |first=John K. |title=Jetliner glory: airliner liveries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cIUBR1rTbboC&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22 |access-date=2 February 2012 |year=1997 |publisher=Airlife |isbn=978-1-85310-802-0 |page=48 |quote=Tupolev 154M RA-85681 was at one time an Aeroflot aircraft and flew in those colours until the break-up of the airline. At that time, the newly formed Moscow Airways applied their own titles and colour scheme and the aircraft entered service providing passenger charter flights from its base at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. ... Included in the fleet of Moscow Airways is an Ilyushin 76TD freighter ... RA-76498 is 1982-built machine which also once bore the colours of Aeroflot.}} and also flew a Tupolev Tu-154M (RA-85681) that carried passengers on charter flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport;{{cite web |url=http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Tupolev%20Tu-154&airlinesearch=Moscow+Airways&distinct_entry=true |title=Photo Search Results: 'Tupolev Tu-154', 'Moscow Airways' |work=Airliners.net |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240525172011/https://www.webcitation.org/65Aa08PLS?url=http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search%3Faircraft_genericsearch=Tupolev%20Tu-154&airlinesearch=Moscow+Airways&distinct_entry=true |archive-date=25 May 2024 |url-status=live |access-date=2 February 2012}} both aircraft previously belonged to Aeroflot. In 1993, the airline ordered fifty Beriev Be-32Ps.{{cite book |last=Frawley |first=Gerard |title=The International Directory of Civil Aircraft, 2001/2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QwbKuVlNY9sC&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22 |access-date=2 February 2012 |year=2001 |publisher=Aerospace Publications |isbn=978-1-875671-52-6 |page=51 |quote=Moscow Airways announced an order for 50 Be-32s in 1993.}}{{cite book |title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft, 2001–2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q8BTAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22 |access-date=2 February 2012 |year=2001 |page=352 |quote=Be-32P: ... Order for 50 announced by Moscow Airways 1993 (company no longer extant).|last1 = Jane|first1 = Frederick Thomas}} These were never built nor delivered.

The airline ceased operations in 1996 after the fatal accident in Africa which killed approximately 300 people.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

{{Main|1996 Air Africa Antonov An-32 crash}}

• On 8 January 1996, an Air Africa Antonov An-32 aircraft (RA-26222) which had been wet-leased from Moscow Airways to Scibe Airlift crashed into a market shortly after taking off from N'Dolo Airport in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing approximately 300 people.{{cite book |last=Guttery |first=Ben R. |title=Encyclopedia of African Airlines |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBmGpaD36cMC&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22&pg=PA43 |access-date=2 February 2012 |year=1998 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-0-7864-0495-7 |page=43 |quote=An Antonov An-32 (Russian registry RA26222) turboprop flown by a Russian crew crashed just after takeoff on January 8, 1996, at Kinshasa. The aircraft was wet-leased to Scibe by Moscow Airways. ... One aboard the aircraft was killed, but the aircraft crashed into a market near the airport, killing almost 300.}} At the time, the Russian Ministry of Transport had "suspended or withdrawn" Moscow Airways' air operator's license.{{cite book |title=Aerospace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t01KAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Moscow+Airways%22 |access-date=2 February 2012 |volume=23 |year=1996 |publisher=Royal Aeronautical Society |isbn= |page=6 |quote=Moscow Airways had been one of about 100 operators whose licences have been suspended or withdrawn by the Russian transport ministry ...}}

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