Initially Aviaarktika flew the Junkers F.13 floatplane and six Dornier Walflying boats. By 1933 there were 42 aircraft including Tupolev ANT-4 and ANT-6's. AVIAARKTIKA Tupolev ANT-4, CCCP-H317, currently located at the Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum in Ulyanovsk Baratayevka Airport , is the only surviving example of the ANT-4. CCCP-H317 crash-landed in Siberian tundra in 1944 and was recovered 39 years later and restored for the museum.
Accidents and incidents
;November 1945: Douglas C-47 CCCP-N362 force-landed near Tiksi due to fuel exhaustion after repeated landing attempts, causing wing and landing gear damage; all 23 on board survived. The aircraft was possibly written off. ;25 December 1945: A Douglas C-47 crashed on takeoff from Dudinka due to an in-flight fire, killing all 10 on board. ;13 December 1946: Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-3 CCCP-N400 force-landed on the ice off Ostrov Litne, Yamalsky District due to engine problems; all 21 on board survived, but the aircraft, operating an Igarka-Arkhangelsk passenger service, was written off. ;7 March 1948: Lisunov Li-2 CCCP-N444 disappeared while operating a Dudinka-Anderma passenger service; the aircraft was found on 17 September 1950 on the slope of Netem-Pe mountain in the Urals; all 20 on board died. The aircraft had struck the mountain while in flight due to possible crew fatigue. ;16 March 1948: Lisunov Li-2 CCCP-N456 crashed on takeoff from Vorkuta Airport due to snow on the runway; all six crew on board survived, but the aircraft was written off. The aircraft was involved in a search for missing Li-2 CCCP-N444. ;16 September 1948: Lisunov Li-2 CCCP-N464 disappeared while on an ice reconnaissance flight with seven on board; debris was found in the Barents Sea on 20 and 24 September; the aircraft had ditched at sea at night and the crew were probably knocked into the sea by a wave and drowned. ;23 April 1950: Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-4 CCCP-N500 overran the runway while landing at Yakutsk Airport in a crosswind, causing the left landing gear to collapse and damaging the left wing and both left side engines; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off. ;26 June 1950: KM-2 CCCP-N488 crashed on landing in the Khimki Reservoir, Moscow due to crew error, killing two of six on board. ;7 November 1950: Lisunov PS-84 CCCP-N359 struck ice hummocks and crashed while attempting to take off from Polar Station SP-2. ;1954: Douglas R4D-5 CCCP-N417 crashed on landing at Polar Station SP-3, Antarctica after the landing gear struck an ice ridge and landed on its belly; the fuselage was used as a sauna and eventually sank. The aircraft was originally used by the US Navy for Operation Ski Jump, carrying out landings on drifting ice; the aircraft was abandoned after the landing gear collapsed on one of these flights and was found and repaired by the Soviets in May 1954. ;4 March 1955: Ilyushin Il-12 CCCP-N479 force-landed near Kepino, Arkhangelsk Region due to an engine fire; killing four of 25 on board. ;2 April 1955: Lisunov Li-2 CCCP-N497 broke through the ice while landing at Mys Zhelaniya; all ten on board survived. Four days later the aircraft was swept out to sea by a storm where it sank. ;26 May 1955: Lisunov Li-2 CCCP-N535 crashed on a drifting ice floe in the central Arctic Basin; all 10 passengers and crew on board survived and were evacuated; but the aircraft was set on fire and abandoned. The wreck was later spotted on December 11, 1959 by the Icelandic Coast Guard. ;11 September 1956: Lisunov Li-2 CCCP-N584 crashed near Cherepovets Airport at night during a training flight, killing the four crew. ;22 September 1956: Mil Mi-4 CCCP-N42 was being ferried from Kazan to Khatanga when it broke apart in mid-air and crashed near Pletnikha, Arzamas Oblast due to a design flaw, killing the four crew. ;7 August 1957: Beriev Be-6 CCCP-N662 crashed 35 km from Mys Kamenny Airport after an in-flight fire caused by engine failure, killing the six crew. ;February 1958: Lisunov Li-2V CCCP-N496 stalled and crashed on takeoff from Mirny Ice Station, Antarctica; the aircraft participated in the 3rd Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1958. ;2 May 1958: Antonov An-2 CCCP-N588 crashed 38 mi from Igarka, killing the three crew. ;30 December 1958: Ilyushin Il-14 CCCP-04196 crashed from Hatanga, Krasnoyarsk region, killing 16 of 17 on board. ;10 August 1959: Lisunov Li-2 CCCP-04210 crashed at Chukotka Cape Shelagsky, killing seven of 10 on board.
