Airport "Bykovo" will soon be back in service!

When in 1936 at the Central airport named after Frunze reconstruction began, it was temporarily closed. And in this region, the functions of the capital airport were transferred to Bykovo, where from September thirteenth, 1936 regular flights began (according to the central schedule).

Airport "Bykovo". Map. How to get there?

Linked to the capital by the Ryazan highway, as well as the Moscow railway line, the Bykovo airport is inconvenient for freight traffic. You can reach it in several ways:

• On the train from the Kazan station;
• By bus: from the subway station "Vykhino" express trains run;
• By car - twenty minutes from MKAD.

History

Located thirty-five kilometers from the center of the capital, the Bykovo airport is today the oldest in Russia. During the Great Patriotic War, it worked intensively for the front. Since 1948, only Russian passenger Li-2 and only IL-12 and IL-14 airliners have operated at Bykovo. In the sixties, a brick runway was laid out on it. Its length was about a kilometer, and its width was eighty meters. This allowed us to exploit not only the Il, but also the An-24 turboprops that replaced them.

In the mid-fifties, a single command and control center was built here, installing a surveillance radar. At the end of the sixties the testing of the world's first jet passenger Yak-40, which made its first flight along the Bykovo-Kostroma-Bykovo route, was started with the united Bykovsky avia-detachment.

At the same time, a serious reconstruction of its territory, including the runway, was carried out. In 1975, a new building was constructed, with a capacity of four hundred passengers per hour. In the nineties, after perestroika, the Bykovo airport was 49 percent owned by Bykovo-Avia, and the rest went to the state.

Current state of affairs

Currently, the airport "Bykovo" operates, serving only local air lines and a small number of routes of medium length. With regular flights work is not performed. However, the Ministry of Emergency Situations landed here, as well as commercial and charter flights.

Today, the airport "Bykovo" (Moscow is forty kilometers away) is experiencing a second birth. In the plans of local authorities, as well as the administration of the region, it is planned to create on its basis the most modern international airport. The airport will have a formed associated infrastructure roads and railways.

In the terminal building there will be waiting halls and ticket offices, as well as three halls of the Business Aviation Center with a special control point and a separate exit to the platform. Here, with the help of flexible pricing policy, it is planned to actively attract customers. The services of this oldest Russian airport will be used by government officials, as well as representatives of special services and the siloviki. A lot of passengers are expected among businessmen as well, those who need to travel very quickly and safely over long distances. Soon, the airport "Bykovo", a photo of which is presented in the article, will become one of the most modernized in the region.

Incidents

A short runway caused the accident that occurred in July 1971 with a Yak-40 aircraft with the USSR-87719 onboard number. At the run, conducted after landing, the liner rolled out beyond the lane, crossed the road and crashed into nearby buildings. After that he caught fire. And this was not the only similar incident. Similar troubles in the seventies were repeated several times. After that, the runway was reconstructed, bringing its length to 2200 meters, and at the same time increasing its strength. In addition, the aerodrome was replaced by light-signal, communication and radio navigation equipment.

In 1980, the Bykovsky aviation enterprise mastered the third-generation aircraft Yak-42, which in December of the same year carried out its first regular flight to Krasnodar. The last flight from this airport on the route "Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod" on this liner was carried out by the airline "Center-Avia" in 2009. Since then, the airport "Bykovo" no longer serves regular flights. Only helicopters and planes of GU "МАЦ" or the Ministry of Internal Affairs fly here, and also charter flights are carried out.

Interesting Facts

The site of the meteorological station not far from the aerodrome did not meet the requirements of the current norms, according to which it should be built ten times farther from buildings and trees. In fact, the AIMS was actually located just a few meters from the terminal building. And this meant that this meteorological station significantly - one or two degrees - overestimated the fixed air temperature. For this reason, its indicators in "Bykovo" were the highest among other similar points in the Moscow region. That's why in August 2011 the weather station was closed.