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Moscow Airways

Russian airline

Moscow Airways was a Russian airline that was formed as a subsidiary of Aeroflot to operate the airline's fleet of Ilyushin Il-62s.² It ceased to exist in 1996.¹ Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1991Founded¹

HeadquartersMoscow¹

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Moscow Airways was a Russian airline that was formed as a subsidiary of Aeroflot to operate the airline's fleet of Ilyushin Il-62s.²

Corporate structure

Moscow Airways is part of a group headed by Aeroflot. 14 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Aeroflot Москва, Russia
- Moscow Airways Moscow
- Aeroflot-Cargo Subsidiary · Moscow
- Aurora Subsidiary · Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
- Dobrolet Airlines Subsidiary · Moscow
- Donavia Subsidiary · Rostov-on-Don
- Orenair Subsidiary · Orenburg Tsentralny Airport
- Pobeda Subsidiary · Moscow
- Rossiya Subsidiary · Saint Petersburg
  - Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Subsidiary · Saint Petersburg
- Saratov Airlines Subsidiary · Saratov Tsentralny Airport
- SAT Airlines Subsidiary · Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport
- Vladivostok Air Subsidiary · Vladivostok
- акционерное общество "Авиакомпания "Россия" Subsidiary · 75% · Санкт-Петербург, Russia

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

It began operating in 1991, flying passengers and airfreight. Among the airline's destinations by 1993 were Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), from where Moscow Airways ferried home South African Muslims returning from pilgrimage.

Moscow Airways operated, from 1993 to 1996, an Ilyushin Il-76TD (tail number RA-76498) that was built in 1982, and also flew a Tupolev Tu-154M (RA-85681) that carried passengers on charter flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport; both aircraft previously belonged to Aeroflot. In 1993, the airline ordered fifty Beriev Be-32Ps. These were never built nor delivered.

The airline stopped operations in 1996 after the fatal accident in Africa which killed approximately 300 people.

From Wikipedia’s article on Moscow Airways, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.³

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Aeroflot

From Wikidata.¹

Controversies and legal

Accidents and incidents

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. At the time, the Russian Ministry of Transport had "suspended or withdrawn" Moscow Airways' air operator's license.