Tajik Air
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| Fleet size | 14 | ||||||
| Destinations | 19 | ||||||
| Company slogan | National airline of Tajikistan | ||||||
| Parent company | Government of Tajikistan | ||||||
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Dushanbe International Airport Dushanbe, Tajikistan |
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| Key people | CEO: Khamroev Firuz Khalilovich, Director General | ||||||
| Website | tajikairlines.com/ | ||||||
State Unitary Aviation Enterprise "Tajik Air" (Tajikistan Airlines) is the national airline of Tajikistan. It has its head office at Dushanbe International Airport in Dushanbe. The airline has its main hub at Dushanbe International Airport, and it retains a secondary focus point at Khujand's Khudzhand Airport.
The first flight of the airline was from Bukhara to Dushanbe on 3 September 1924 by a Junkers F.13 aircraft, initiating development of civil aviation in Tajikistan. The first aircraft appeared in the capital two years earlier than the car and five years earlier than the train.
For the first time, the Stalinabad airfield complex was formed and operation of new routes started over the Pamir mountain ranges. In 1930, a first class airport was built in Dushanbe. One year later airports were built in Kulyab, Garm, Panj and Dangara where regular flights were operated from Dushanbe. Aviation of Tajikistan developed rapidly as the air fleet expanded. Air transport became an essential branch of the country's national economy. Tajik aviation provided regular transport connection between the capital of the Republic and all the highland settlements in the hard-to-reach valleys of Vanch, Rushan, Shugnan, Bartang, Yagnob and others, reducing the travel time of passengers of the mountain regions of the Pamirs, Karategin, blooming valleys of Vakhsh, Hissar by tens or hundreds of times. In March 1937, the Tajik Territorial Department of Civil Air Fleet was formed.
In 1945, the Tajik Department of Civil Air Fleet (TU GVF) received new Lisunov Li-2 and Junkers Ju-52 aircraft. The first flight by the crew of the Li-2 aircraft was operated on the route Stalinabad - Moscow. In the 1950s and 1960s aviation in Tajikistan was one of the most developed sectors of the national economy of the Republic. From 1951, Antonov An-2s were utilized in the fleet of the Tajik Department of Civil Air Fleet and in 1954 Ilyushin Il-12s were introduced by which the first flight on the route Stalinabad - Sochi was operated. Between 1956 and 1964, Ilyushin Il-14, Ilyushin Il-18 and Antonov An-6 (high-altitude version of the An-2) aircraft joined the fleet, as well as Mil Mi-4 helicopters.
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