Air Koryo is North Korea's flag carrier and only commercial airline. It is state-owned and controlled by the North Korean air force. Headquartered in Sunan-guyŏk, Pyongyang, it operates domestic and i
An Air Koryo Tupolev Tu-204
Korean Airways aircraft with German Working Group Hamhung staff (1958)
Air Koryo office in Pyongyang
Interior of an Air Koryo Tupolev Tu-204
The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and Russian airlines for several decades, it carr
Air Koryo
…expensive type was not suitable for the nation's economic conditions at that time. Jet operations commenced two decades later in 1975 when the first Tupolev Tu-154 was delivered for service from Pyongyang to Prague, East Berlin, and Moscow with refueling stops in Irkutsk and Novosibirsk, as the Tu-154 had insufficient…
Tu-154 for Russian Ministry of Defence Manufacturing, Aviakor plant, 2009, one of several airframes built in the 1990s and left unsold
The cockpit of the Tupolev Tu-154