Yevpatoria Airport "''Yevpatoria aircraft repair plant''" ( uk, Євпаторійський авіаційний ремонтний завод, russian: Евпаторийский авиационный ремонтный завод) is an airport in

Yevpatoria Yevpatoria ( uk, Євпаторія, Yevpatoriia; russian: Евпатория, Yevpatoriya; crh, , , gr, Ευπατορία) is a city of regional significance in Western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay. Yevpatoria serves as the administrativ ...

Crimea Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

. The airport is located just

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of the city.

Military use

The airport has been used by the: * 53rd Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO between 1952 and 1960. * 355th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO between 1954 and 1958. * 925th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO between 1954 and 1960.

History and development

The State enterprise of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "''Evpatoria aircraft repair plant''" (Also known as EARZ) was founded on November 25, 1939 (took roots in 1926). On November 12, 1991 passenger aircraft

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landed at the aerodrome "Evpatoria". From that moment the plant became the first

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that was allowed to repair

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aircraft. The plant has relations with

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, Columbia and various air companies of the world. Since 1995 the plant has maintained relations with the Antonov Design Bureau. One result of such a cooperation was mastering of

An-12 The Antonov An-12 ( Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than th ...

maintenance by EARZ specialists. Then, in 1999, the plant began the mastering of periodic maintenance and works on maintenance certification of aircraft

An-24 The Antonov An-24 (Russian/Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) ( NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by Kyiv, Ir ...

An-26 The Antonov An-26 (NATO reporting name: Curl) is a twin-engined turboprop civilian and military transport aircraft, designed and produced in the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1986.Gordon, Yefim. Komissarov, Dmitry & Sergey. "Antonov's Turboprop Twin ...

and

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. Volume of production in 1999 increased in comparison with 1998 by 3.2 times. Evpatoria aircraft repair plant has appropriate certificates for performing works on civil aircraft. In 2002 Quality Management System was applied on the plant in accordance with national and international standards

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, AS 9000, national and international Aviation Regulations.

Plans

To implement the General Plan of city of Evpatoria, as well as the Strategic Plan for Economic and Social Development of Evpatoria for the period up to 2015, state-owned enterprise of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Evpatoria aircraft repair plant in conjunction with the Directorate of Investment Policy and Foreign Economic Relations of Evpatoria city council developed the concept of business project plan to build in Evpatoria Airport . Executive Committee in accordance with the decision of the City Council sent a letter to the

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with the request to transfer to communal ownership of the territorial community of the city of Evpatoria runway with the adjacent military airfield taxiway grade 2. The aim of this project is to create high-tech enterprise, which in the long term can serve multimodule passenger and freight node Western Crimea.Future Plans
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