Private company

Berkut Air

Airline of Kazakhstan

State Air Company Berkut, commonly known as Berkut Air, was an airline based in Astana, Kazakhstan, operated Government charter flights out of Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded1
  • HeadquartersAstana1
Kazakhstan Government Airbus A330-200 Schmid
Photo: Peter Schmid, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons4

State Air Company Berkut, commonly known as Berkut Air, was an airline based in Astana, Kazakhstan, operated Government charter flights out of Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport.2

The story

Berkut Air was founded in 1999. Except all other commercial Kazakh airlines, it was not banned from entering EU airspace in April 2009, due to the high standards of technical maintenance.

From Wikipedia’s article on Berkut Air, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Current fleet

As of July 2026, Berkut Air operates the following aircraft:

Former fleet

As of August 2025, Berkut Air operated 1 Boeing 757-200, 1 Ilyushin Il76 and 1 Tupolev Tu-134.

The airline also previously operated the following aircraft:

1 Airbus A320

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1 Antonov An-12, UP-AN205, Cargo

1 Fokker 100, UP-F1004, Charter

1 Yakovlev Yak-40, UP-Y4023, Charter

1 Tupolev Tu-154M, UN-85713, Charter

1 Tupolev Tu-134AK

1 Boeing 747-200, 9G-MKS, Cargo

1 Bombardier Challenger 850

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Timeline

  1. 1999Founded Founded1

Sources

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