AVIACON ZITOTRANS

Aviacon won the trust of major Russian and international energy, service and engineering companies that many times handed over their high-technology equipment for fast and safe airlift, with General Electric, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Schlumberger, Total, Novatek, Rosneft among them.

Delivery of heavy and outsize pieces of cargo is one of the company’s major specialization. Our company has years of proven experience in performing such flights with our qualified crew and loadmasters.

The transport of dangerous or hazardous cargo requires special treatment and is not to be undertaken lightly. Aviacon is well known as a reliable carrier among prominent exporters of hi-tech dangerous goods, sensitive and hazardous materials. It was nominated as a carrier for the airlift deliveries of high-value cargo under the contracts with the top world exporters, such as EADS, Thales Underwater, Nexter Systems, BAE Systems, Bharat Dynamics Limited etc.

Aviacon is widely known in the professional community of helicopter operators , MRO companies and manufacturers as a reliable provider of cost-effective solutions for the delivery and redeployment of their rotorcraft. It has become the first choice IL-76 carrier to transport medium utility helicopters operating by the helicopter companies or manufacturers from the former USSR (MI-8/17, Ansat, Kamov’s models). Company’s loadmasters obtained proven experience in loading/offloading of the Bell models (-208 / 215 / 412), Eurocopter AS350 (Squirrel), SA 341 (Gazelle), Westland Lynx, SA 330 (Puma ), AS 532 (Cougar), AS332 (Super Puma) and other models of rotorcraft of the same class on/from IL-76 cargo deck.

Since early 2000 Aviacon has been a major airlift supplier for humanitarian agencies and the UN peacekeepers providing ad-hoc charters, as well as long-term solutions for a number of UN organizations, including the World Food Programme (WFP), Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) and the Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Over the years Aviacon has been many times involved in ad hoc and large-scale humanitarian relief flight operations for the governments, international NGOs and other aid providers. As from 2004 to 2007, one of Aviacon’s Ilyushin-76 aircraft was permanently based at the UN logistics base (UNLB) in Brindisi, Italy, operating under the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) banner.