Rosaviatsia canceled Angara Airlines' commercial air transport operator certificate means the airline will not be able to operate flights from November 5.
prepared documents about Angara and its plane crashes.
Basic concept
Until the summer of 2025, Angara Aviation JSC was one of the main regional airlines in Eastern Siberia. Headquartered at Irkutsk International Airport, as well as at Nizhneudinsk and Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo) airports. IATA code – 2G, ICAO code – AGU. In addition to transporting passengers and commercial cargo, the airline also carries out medical flights, forest fire monitoring, search and rescue operations, etc.
Established in 2000 on the basis of the fleet of the Irkutsk aircraft repair plant No. 403. Received operator certificate on June 29, 2000. In 2010, another local airline Irkutskavia became part of Angara.
Before the announcement of the cancellation of the operator certificate in October 2025, the airline operated flights to 11 destinations at airports in the Siberian and Far Eastern federal districts.
Airplane team
According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, as of September 4, 2025 (the latter data were not published), the Angara fleet included 29 aircraft – 11 An-24RV turboprop passenger aircraft, 3 An-26-100 turboprop cargo aircraft, as well as 15 Mi-8 helicopters of various modifications.
Indicators, owners, management
The company's revenue by the end of 2024 reached 4.6 billion rubles. (up 3% compared to 2023), net profit reached RUB 300.1 million. (43.6% less than at the end of 2023).
The average number of employees in 2024 is 555 people.
Angara is a member of the Eastland group, which also owns the East Siberian River Transport Company and several other companies. The owner of the corporation is Sergey Eroshchenko (who served as governor of the Irkutsk region in 2012-2015). The airline's director is Ivan Katitsyn.
Website
Official airline website – https://angara.aero/.
Angara plane crash
In total, during the operation of this airline, 5 aircraft accidents were recorded, including deaths.
On July 11, 2011, passenger aircraft An-24RV (registration number RA-47302), carrying out flight 9007 on orders from Tomsk Avia from Tomsk to Surgut, made an emergency landing on the river due to an engine fire. Yes. Due to impact with the water, the plane was significantly damaged. A total of 33 passengers and 4 crew members were on board. Seven passengers died from their injuries.
On May 6, 2013, in the Irkutsk region, a Mi-8T helicopter (registration number RA-24410) performing flood control work on the lower reaches of the Tunguska River exploded in the air. All nine people on board were killed – six employees of the Ministry of Emergencies (among them was the acting head of the Regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies Stanislav Omelyanchik) and three crew members. The helicopter was carrying about 2 tons of ammonite, an explosive planned to be used to blow up the ice jam. Perhaps the cargo exploded due to a passenger's careless use of the detonator. Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded the Order of Courage to those killed in the helicopter crash. Three members of the Angara crew were awarded state awards: aircraft commander Igor Markov, instructor pilot – head of a separate aviation group Andrey Zhizhelev, aircraft mechanic Alexey Kulebyakin.
On September 2, 2018, on the territory of the Kazachinsko-Lensky district of the Irkutsk region, 290 km southeast of Ust-Kut, a Mi-8MT helicopter (registration number RA-25502), performing aerial photography, crashed. Three crew members on board died. The Federal Aviation Commission (IAC) committee investigating the emergency cited loss of spatial orientation and control errors by the aircraft commander as the most likely causes of the disaster.
On June 27, 2019, an An-24RV passenger plane (registration number RA-47366), en route from Ulan-Ude, crashed at Nizhneangarsk airport (Buryatia). Making an emergency landing with a damaged engine, it skidded off the runway, crashed into a wastewater treatment plant and burst into flames. As a result, 2 crew members out of 47 people on board died, and 9 others were hospitalized. According to the final report of the IAC, the crew's errors led to the disaster: not calculating the required landing distance, choosing the wrong type and trajectory of the landing method, not taking measures to handle a missed approach, etc.
On July 24, 2025, the biggest Angara disaster occurred: an An-24RV plane (registration number RA-47315), flying along the route Khabarovsk – Blagoveshchensk – Tynda, crashed. The plane's wreckage was found on a mountainside 16 km from Tynda. On the plane were 40 passengers (including 2 children) and 6 crew members. They are all dead. According to IAC's preliminary report, no system errors were recorded before the plane collided with the ground. On July 30, the Federal Air Transport Authority canceled Angara Airlines' license allowing it to perform aircraft maintenance; By August 21, the company's training center revoked the certificate.
