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SALEKHARD AIRPORT IN RUSSIA WELCOMES ITS FIRST-EVER VISIT BY VOLGA-DNEPR’S AN-124-100 ‘RUSLAN’ FREIGHTER


A Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ AN-124- 100 ‘Ruslan’ freighter has landed in the Russian city of Salekhard for the first time, delivering a 26-tonne turbine for the local power plant.


To operate the flight, Volga-Dnepr and its customer UTair Cargo JSC had to obtain special permission to land at


Salekhard Airport. In order to welcome its first An-124, the airport needed to conform to special requirements, including a definite level of fireworthiness and safety precautions.


The turbine for the Salekhard electric power station was moved by ground transport from Ukraine to Ulyanovsk, the Russian city where Volga-Dnepr was founded. In Ulyanovsk, the unique and outsize cargo completed the necessary


customs clearance procedures before Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ technical crew loaded it onboard the AN-124-100 using special equipment.


Salekhard is the second new Russian airport to be served by Volga-Dnepr in 2013. In October, one of its AN-124-100 aircraft landed at Khrabrovo Kaliningrad Airport to deliver an 80-tonne mobile power plant.


AN-124 AND IL-76TD-90VD FREIGHTERS SUPPORT TURBINE ROTOR REPAIR FOR JAMAICA’S POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM


Volga-Dnepr Airlines has carried a 28-ton turbine rotor from Houston, USA, to Montego Bay in Jamaica to support uninterrupted operation of the island’s power supply system.


The rotor was placed on wooden pallets and loaded onboard the Volga-Dnepr IL-76TD- 90VD aircraft using a mobile crane and trailer. The flight was operated on behalf of the international air charter company Chapman Freeborn. The turbine rotor is being used to supply power to the residential sector, hospitals and government facilities in the northern part of the island.


Volga-Dnepr has previously transported the rotor for repair from Montego Bay to Chicago onboard an AN-124-100 freighter. The flight was completed under the contract signed between Chapman Freeborn and the Russian and Ukrainian joint venture, Ruslan International.


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