Yevpatoria Airport

Yevpatoria aircraft repair plant "Євпаторійський авіаційний ремонтний завод"
IATA: none ICAO: UKFE UKFE Location of Yevpatoria Airport in Ukraine
Summary
Airport type	Military
Location	Yevpatoria, Ukraine
Elevation AMSL	33 ft / 10 m
Coordinates	45°22′5.398″N 33°38′05.85″E
Website	http://www.earz.narod.ru/main.html
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 8/24 6,600 2,011 Concrete

Yevpatoria Airport "Yevpatoria aircraft repair plant" (Template:Lang-uk, Template:Lang-ru) (ICAO: UKFE) is an airport in Yevpatoria, Ukraine. The airport is located just east of the city.

EARZ is one of the oldest domestic factories for repair and modernization of aircraft.

History and Development

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 Yak-42 landed at the aerodrome “Evpatoria”. From that moment the plant became the first military enterprise that was allowed to repair civil aircraft.

The plant has relations with India, Angola, Bulgaria, Mexico, Columbia and different air companies of the world.

Since 1995 the plant has maintained relations with Antonov Design Bureau. Result of such a cooperation was mastering of An-12 maintenance by EARZ specialists. Then, in 1999, the plant began mastering of periodic maintenance and works on maintenance certification of aircraft An-24, An-26 and An-32. 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 ISO 9000, AS 9000, national and international Aviation Regulations.

References

• 1) Google Maps
• 2) About the company