Simrik Air Pvt. Ltd. is a helicopter airline based at

Tribhuvan International Airport Tribhuvan International Airport (, , colloquially referred to as TIA) is an international airport located in Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal. It has a tabletop runway, a domestic terminal and an international terminal. As the country's main internat ...

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. It operates chartered

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services. The company was established in 2001. It was a partner of Simrik Airlines, which operates scheduled

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services, until latter airline was rebranded as

Guna Airlines Guna Airlines Pvt. Ltd. () is an airline based in Nepal operating domestic scheduled flights from its base at Tribhuvan International Airport. Guna Airlines was initially formed in 2009, when it was part of the Guna Group a Nepalese Conglomerate ( ...

in 2021. Simrik Air also partners with Swiss helicopter operator Air Zermatt, which helps with pilot training. Simrik Air, has added a new Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter to its fleet. The helicopter, which has serial number 65430, was signed for in Singapore on March 20, 2023. It is the latest and most successful model of the Bell Jet Ranger helicopter, and is equipped with advanced avionics and safety features. It is banned from flying into EU airspace.

Fleet

Current fleet

The Simrik Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2023):

Former fleet

* Mil Mi-8MTV-1

Accidents and incidents

* 28 May 2003 - A Simrik Air Mil Mi-8MTV-1 crashed while approaching

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. Two passengers were killed and nine injured. * 23 November 2006 - A Simrik Air Mil Mi-8MTV-1 crashed during an

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Jumla District Jumla District (), is one of the ten districts of Nepal, districts of the Karnali Province, Karnali province of Nepal. This district has Jumla (town), Jumla as its headquarters, an area of ; it had populations of 89,427 and 108,921, respectivel ...

. * 22 June 2015 - A Simrik Air Eurocopter AS 350 caught fire after a

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and had to make an

. All five persons on board were reported to be safe. * 30 June 2018 - A Simrik Air Eurocopter AS 350 crashed during a landing at Grande International Hospital in

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. No passenger was harmed, however the video of which

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. * 5 May 2023 - A Simrik Air 9N-AJZ helicopter with four passengers onboard in the command of Captain Surendra Paudel was crashed in Bhotkhola Rural Municipality -4, sankhuwasabha. There were four passengers and one pilot onboard. One passenger was reported dead, while four other were injured.

References

External links

* Airlines of Nepal Airlines established in 2001 2001 establishments in Asia 2001 establishments in Nepal {{Nepal-transport-stub