Airline Name
Ark AirwaysIATA: ZQ / ICAO: ARQ / Callsign: ARK AIRWAYS
Country of Origin
Armenia
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
B742F (747-200F) (1 operated),These photos were taken at PRG in 2012 so it would be cool to allow it to visit again.
Why should this airline be added?
This airline I’ve put forward due to it being a cool scheme on a 747-200F, one that was used up until 2021 in this livery, with the 742F still being in operation in Europe for a Moldovan airline called Fly Pro. The aircraft was originally flown by NCA till 2006 when it was sold to AirBridgeCargo who operated it for 3 years in a reduced NCA livery. It then was transfered to a Georgian airline, Eurex Cargo who used the same livery till 2011 prior to Ark Airways acquiring it and repainting it into this livery. The airline flew for only a year and the aircraft was transferred on to Jet Star, a Moldovan airline, used till 2013 and then stored in Jakarta until 2021 in these colours when it was reactivated during covid by an Uzbek company and used between 2021 and 2024 before finally being transferred to Fly Pro.This airline was the one, however, to paint the aircraft into this cool livery and it would provide Armenia with a cargo airline and hopefully put Yerevan on the map. It also operated 7 IL-76s but we ain’t seeing them any time soon so I’ve not included them.