Ramenskoye Airport
| Zhukovsky Airfield Аэропорт Раменское | |||||||||||||||||||
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| IATA: ZIA [1] – ICAO: UUBW | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military (also passenger from March 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Moscow | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 123 m / 404 ft | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°33′12″N 038°9′6″E / 55.55333°N 38.15167°E | ||||||||||||||||||
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Zhukovsky Airfield (ICAO: UUBW), also known as Ramenskoye Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Раменское), is an airport in Moscow Oblast, Russia located 40 km southeast of center Moscow and in the town of Zhukovsky. Named after nearest town of Ramenskoye. It serves as a major aircraft testing facility since the Cold War years with the majority of the major Russian OKBs having facilities on the airfield. It is also now used by the Ministry of Emergency Situations and cargo transportation. This airfield was also used as a test site for the Soviet Buran Spacecraft.[2]
The airfield is a part of Gromov Flight Research Institute and hosts the biennial MAKS Airshow.
Ramenskoye Airport is also home to the world's second longest public-use runway, at 5,402 m (17,723 ft).
Public jet fighter flights
Until June 2006, flights in jet fighters for the public have been available, also to international customers. The following doubleseater jets were available for public flights on Zhukovsky: Aero L-39 Albatros, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat, for Edge of Space flights, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum[3] and Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker. Since June 2006, no public flights are available in Zhukovsky, although it has been said since then that the flights will be available again. Today jetflights in Aero L-39 Albatros are possible in Russia with the team Vyazma Rus,[4] flights with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-31 Foxhound have been available on Sokol Airfield. At the moment, only the MiG-29 is available for flights.[5]
Development
On March 29, 2011, then Russian prime-minister Vladimir Putin proposed to move all charter and low-cost flights to Ramenskoye Airport, to give relief to Moscow's Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports and reduce the cost of tickets.[6] The construction of the new terminal has been finished and the airport is to open on 16 March 2016.[7]
References
- ↑ http://www.ato.ru/content/aeroport-ramenskoe-ne-somnevaetsya-v-svoih-vozmozhnostyah
- ↑ Documentation AKC Full Scale Stand of Equipment (FSSE) and Piloting Dynamic Stand for Training (PDST)
- ↑ "MiG-29 Flight from Sokol Airbase". MiGFlug. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ↑ http://www.vyazmarus.com
- ↑ http://www.flyfighterjet.com/fly-mig-29-russia-sokol-nizhniy-novgorod-moscow/
- ↑ Aviaport digest (in Russian)
- ↑ "Moscow's New Ramenskoye Airport to Open in March". The Moscow Times. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
External links
Media related to Ramenskoye Airport at Wikimedia Commons