Pamir Airways

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Founded in 1994 and inaugurated in May 1995, Kabul-based Pamir Airways was described as Afghanistan’s first private airline to receive an Air Operator Certificate. It flew with IATA code PM, ICAO code PIR, and the callsign PAMIR, operating from Kabul International Airport.

The airline began with a Boeing 707-300 and two Antonov An-12 aircraft. In its final years, Pamir operated domestic and international scheduled and charter services with a mixed fleet that included Boeing 737s and Antonov An-24s—an aviation time capsule with genuine runway credentials.

Its history also carries a tragic chapter: on May 17, 2010, Pamir Airways Flight 112, an Antonov An-24 flying from Kunduz to Kabul, struck mountainous terrain, killing all 44 people aboard. In March 2011, the Afghan government grounded the carrier amid questions involving aircraft documentation and its connection to Kabul Bank. Operations had ceased by March 19, 2011.

Our Pamir Airways collection celebrates a Kabul carrier that carried the Pamir name—the “roof of the world”—onto ticket jackets, aircraft tails, and the crowded, complicated skies of modern Afghanistan. A small airline with a big name, now cleared for archival altitude.