Scat Air is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Shymkent

Shymkent

Shymkent , formerly known as Chimkent , is the capital city of South Kazakhstan Province, the most populated region in Kazakhstan. It is the third most populous city in Kazakhstan behind Almaty and Astana with a population of 629,600 . A major railroad junction on the Turkestan-Siberia Railway, the...

, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

. It operates services to all major cities of Kazakhstan and to neighbouring countries. Its main base is Shymkent Airport, with hubs at Oral Ak Zhol Airport

Oral Ak Zhol Airport

Oral Ak Zhol Airport is an airport in Kazakhstan located 12 km southeast of Oral, Kazakhstan. It is a small airport servicing medium-sized airliners. It has parking for 4 jets. This airport has two terminals - domestic and international...

, Aqtau Airport, Astana International Airport

Astana International Airport

Astana International Airport is an international airport in Kazakhstan located 14 km outside of the capital Astana.-History:The airport traces its history to 1931 when Astana's first airfield was constructed...

, Atyrau Airport

Atyrau Airport

ATMA Atyrau Airport is an airport in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.- History :ATMA obtained the operational rights of ATMA Atyrau Airport when the airport was privatized as a build and operate model in 1994. ATMA is a joint company which Mağdenli Yer Hizmetleri owns the 50 % of the shares and the remaining...

, Kyzylorda Airport

Kyzylorda Airport

Kyzylorda Airport is an airport serving Kyzylorda , the capital city of the Kyzylorda Province in Kazakhstan.-Facilities:The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway which measures ....

 and Almaty International Airport

Almaty International Airport

Almaty International Airport is the largest international airport in Kazakhstan. It is located about from the centre of Almaty, the country's largest city and commercial capital. Almaty airport accounts for half of passenger traffic and 68% of cargo traffic to Kazakhstan...

.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1997. It is owned by Vladimir Denissov (53%) and Vladimir Sytnik (47%).

Fleet

The SCAT fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 16 June 2010):

SCAT Fleet

Aircraft	In Fleet Orders	Passengers	Notes
Passenger
Antonov An-2 Antonov An-2 The Antonov An-2 is a single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft designed in the USSR in 1946...	unknown	12
Antonov An-24 Antonov An-24 The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau from 1957.-Design and development:...	6	48
Antonov An-148 Antonov An-148 The Antonov An-148 Antonov Design Bureau from Kiev, Ukraine, is a regional jet aircraft designed by the Ukrainian Antonov Design Bureau and produced by Ukraine's Kiev Aviation Plant AVIANT and Russia's Voronezh Aircraft Production Association. Development of the plane was started in the 1990s,...	7	80
Boeing 737-300	1	144	Equipped with winglets Operated by Small Planet Airlines
Boeing 737-500	2	118	Operated by Small Planet Airlines
Boeing 757-200	1	220	Operated by Small Planet Airlines
Yakovlev Yak-42 Yakovlev Yak-42 The Yakovlev Yak-42 is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet. It was designed as a replacement for several obsolete Aeroflot jets as a mid-range passenger jet...	unknown	120
Cargo
Antonov An-12 Antonov An-12 The Antonov An-12 is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10.-Design and development:...	unknown	N/A	20 MT Cargo
Antonov An-26 Antonov An-26 The Antonov An-26 is a twin-engined turboprop military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the USSR from 12 March 1968.-Development:...	unknown	N/A	5,5 MT Cargo

In April 2007, Scat Air introduced a BAC One-Eleven 500

BAC One-Eleven

The British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven, also known as the BAC-111, BAC-1-11 or BAC 1-11, was a British short-range jet airliner of the 1960s and 1970s...

 to its fleet for services between Shymkent, Astana and Almaty. It has been wet lease

Wet lease

Aircraft leases are a number of types of leases used by airlines and other aircraft operators. Airlines lease aircraft from other airlines or leasing companies for two main reasons; to operate aircraft without the financial burden of buying them, and to provide temporary increase in capacity...

d from local charter airline Transaero

Transaero

OJSC Transaero Airlines or simply Transaero is an airline with its head office on the grounds of Domodedovo International Airport, Domodedovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia. It operates scheduled and charter flights to more than 99 domestic and international destinations...

. The registration of the aircraft is EX-103, ie registered in Kyrgyzstan. All others "Antonov An-24

Antonov An-24

The Antonov An-24 is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport designed and manufactured in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau from 1957.-Design and development:...

" of SCAT have codes beginning with UN, the registration code of Kazakhstan. A further One-Eleven (EX-086) was wet leased from Trast Aero in June 2007. Both are ex-TAROM

TAROM

S.C. Compania Națională de Transporturi Aeriene Române TAROM S.A., doing business as TAROM Romanian Air Transport, is the flag carrier and oldest currently operating airline of Romania. The brand name is an acronym for...

aircraft. The aircraft were returned to the lessors in May 2008 and SCAT no longer operates the BAC One-Eleven.