20 Crasair aircraft will be sold by Sberbank of Russia to pay off the carrier's debt. newspaper writes about this The Vedomosti . According to the publication, the aircraft are collateral for the loan.

The East Siberian Bank of Sberbank put up for sale the property of Krasair and Sibaviatrans: three AN-24 aircraft, one AN-32, three Tu-134, one Tu-154B, eight Tu-154M, four IL-86, as well as 31 aircraft engines and one Mi-8 helicopter. In total, Sberbank valued this property at 1.63 billion rubles.

In November 2008, the Arbitration Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory satisfied the claim of Sberbank against Krasair Airlines and Krasnoyarsk Airport, which did not fulfill their loan obligations to the bank. As a result, one of the Krasier aircraft, pledged as collateral for the loan, was transferred to Sberbank. It was not reported which plane the bank was supposed to receive.

Krasair airline was part of the AiRUnion air alliance, on the basis of which the state corporation Russian Technologies and the Moscow government created a new holding company, Rosavia. By mid-2008, Krasair's debt amounted to about 18 billion rubles. At the end of August last year, massive delays of Krasair flights began after several fuel suppliers refused to provide their services to the company due to the company's debts.

On October 31 last year, Crasair made its last flights. It was decided that the carrier would become part of Rosavia, while more than 70 percent of Krasair's staff would be fired. It is expected that planes of the Moscow airline Atlant-Soyuz will fly on Krasair routes.

Sberbank will sell 20 Krasair aircraft for debts