Silk Avia receives new ATR 72-600 aircraft

Today, 16 February, Silk Avia, a member of Uzbekistan Airways Group, has accepted the fourth ATR 72-600 aircraft for commercial operation.



The aircraft passed all the necessary technical and flight tests at the Airbus factory airfield in Toulouse (France) and landed in Tashkent at 15:00. By tradition, the aircraft was solemnly welcomed with a water arch. Representatives of mass media and Uzbekistan Airways management met the aircraft on the platform.



The aircraft, which arrived directly from the factory, has a simplified colouring of the fuselage - completely white. In the future it is planned to apply in one of the hangars of Uzbekistan Airways Technics the traditional livery with the image of the national khan-atlas. The ATR 72-600 has a maximum take-off weight of 22,800kg and a range of up to 1,528km. The new airliner has already been put on the schedule grid. It will make its first flight on an intra-republican route.

"Silk Avia, being a part of Uzbekistan Airways Group, has ambitious goals: to become the leader of air transportations on domestic routes of the country, to constantly expand the route network and increase the number of flights. Moreover, our common goal, the goal of New Uzbekistan, is to make flights affordable and develop domestic tourism in the Republic, which will undoubtedly be achieved through air links between cities of the country using ATR brand turboprop aircraft" said Shukhrat Khudaykulov, Chairman of the Board of Uzbekistan Airways.



Silk Avia has four ATR 72-600 regional passenger aircraft with a capacity of up to 72 passengers in its fleet. Silk Avia currently connects nine cities in Uzbekistan: Tashkent, Bukhara, Karshi, Navoi, Namangan, Samarkand, Termez, Fergana and Urgench.