Ramenskoye Airport Аэропорт Раменское
IATA: none – ICAO: UUBW
Summary
Airport type		restricted
Serves		Moscow
Elevation AMSL		377 ft / 115 m
Coordinates		55°33′12″N 038°9′0″E / 55.55333°N 38.15°E / 55.55333; 38.15
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
12/30	17,726	5,403	Concrete
08/26	9,673	2,949	Concrete

Ramenskoye Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Раменское) (ICAO: UUBW), also known as Ramenskoye Airfield or Zhukovsky Airfield, is an airport in Moscow Oblast, Russia located 40 km southeast of Moscow and near the 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 Ministry of Emergency Situations and cargo transportation. This airfield was also used as a test site for the Soviet Buran Spacecraft.^[1]

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 runway, at 17,726 ft (5,403 m).

[edit] 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 and Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker.^[2] Since June 2006, no public flights are not 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^[3], 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, as the only remaining supersonic jet in Russia.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Airport parameters

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