The Dagestan enterprise KEMZ Concern plans in 2020 to create an air company in Kizlyar (Dagestan), which will operate flights on small aircraft, primarily on four-seater MAI-411 aircraft of its own production.

Recall that MAI-411, developed jointly with the Design Bureau of Moscow Aviation Institute and built on the basis of the Kizlyar enterprise KEMZ, first presented in the air at the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019.

“In Kizlyar, we are creating an airline company that will deal with such flights (on light aircraft - TASS remark). We are preparing documents, we will train people there, involve youth in this area. It will be the air company, in which our aircraft will be located,” said Ibrahim Akhmatov, Director General of KEMZ Concern, adding that it is planned to complete the creation of the air company in mid-2020.

According to him, the fleet of the new airline, in addition to light-engine aircraft, will include helicopters, as well as motor hang gliders.

“We plan that the airline will have two MAI-411 aircraft and two helicopters, which we expect to purchase. They will be used for tourism, for the Ministry of Emergencies and air medical service. We’ll transfer (to the ownership of the airline) our motor hang gliders, which the plant made in Soviet times,” explained the Director General of KEMZ Concern.