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Krylo Airlines

Russian airline

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2022
Entity authorityQ3280888 ↗
Source-derived summary

Krylo Airlines was an airline based in Moscow, Russia, which operated regional passenger services and freight charters between 1990 and 2003.

Code data

IATA Code: K9

ICAO Code: KRI

Callsign: Krylo

History

The airline was established in December 1990 and started operations in January 1991. It started international charter services as a means of earning revenue following a fall in state funding.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Krylo Airlines” as russian airline. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2003, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. The account is most persuasive where Krylo, Airlines and Russian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as russian airline. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q3280888. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2003 and 1991.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Krylo Airlines” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.