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Iranian airline
Qeshm Air (Persian: هواپیمایی قشم, Havâpeymâyi-ye Qešm) is an Iranian airline; it has its headquarters in Tehran, Iran and operates scheduled domestic and international passenger services as well as charter flights. The airline was founded in 1993 as Faraz Qeshm Airline. Qeshm Air is owned by the Ministry of Petroleum (Iran).2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Qeshm Air (Persian: هواپیمایی قشم, Havâpeymâyi-ye Qešm) is an Iranian airline; it has its headquarters in Tehran, Iran and operates scheduled domestic and international passenger services as well as charter flights. The airline was founded in 1993 as Faraz Qeshm Airline.2
Qeshm Air was founded in 1993 and established its services by leasing airplanes from other airlines. The company's first routes were from Tehran to Qeshm, and from Tehran to Dubai. By the year 2000, Qeshm Air had seven aircraft in its fleet.
From Wikipedia’s article on Qeshm Air, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
As of July 2026, Qeshm Air operates the following aircraft:
As of August 2025, Qeshm Air operated 4 Airbus A300, 3 Airbus A320, 4 Avro RJ100 and 3 Fokker 100.
Qeshm Airlines also previously operated these aircraft:
Airbus A300B4
Airbus A319-100
Airbus A321-100
Fokker 50
McDonnell Douglas MD-83
Tupolev Tu-154M
Yakovlev Yak-40
Yakovlev Yak-42D
From Wikipedia’s article on Qeshm Air, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
On 17 May 2001, a Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 departed from Tehran on a flight to Gorgan Airport carrying 30 people; including the Iranian Transport Minister Rahman Dadman, two deputy ministers and seven more members of parliament. It was forced to divert due to bad weather conditions and was later discovered crashed in the Alborz mountains, near Sari, Iran. All on board died.
On 6 March 2026, a Fokker 100 was destroyed as collateral damage in an airstrike on Mehrabad Airport, as part of the 2026 Iran war.
From Wikipedia’s article on Qeshm Air, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
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