Grabtsevo - an airport in Kaluga, is currently not functioning and is used as a landing airfield for small aircraft and helicopters. Previously, the Grabtsevo airfield was used for servicing and receiving aircraft from the Kaluga Aviation Flight Technical School ROSTO.
A link of Ka-2 "Gazpromavia" helicopters is deployed near the airport in Kaluga. Currently, the airport is undergoing a planned reconstruction, and it is planned to be put into operation at the end of 2014.
History
In the mid-70s of the last century, the airport in Kaluga received light and medium-sized aircraft An-24, Yak-40, TU-134, as well as helicopters of all types. By the beginning of the 90s, only five flights were carried out from the Grabtsev airport on An-24 and Yak-40 planes in different directions, namely Gelendzhik, Donetsk, Kharkov, Leningrad, Minsk.
In 2000, financing of the airport from the federal and local budgets stopped. The funds received from their own activities were not enough for the maintenance of the airport and the maintenance of aircraft, not to mention the implementation of any air transportation, so the airline stopped flights, and the equipment and facilities were mothballed until better times.
Development prospects
In 2008, local mass media reported that a large Kaluga enterprise Volkswagen plans to invest approximately 400-500 million rubles in the reconstruction of the airport. And already in November 2013, the Chinese company PETRO-KHEHUA LLC was appointed the main contractor for the reconstruction of the airport in Kaluga. The reconstruction plan includes strengthening the runway, taxiways, reconstruction of the aircraft parking and drainage and drainage system.
The financing scheme involves the use of public-private partnerships. The cost of the project is about 2 billion rubles, half of the invested funds are invested from the federal budget of the country.
After the reconstruction, the airport plans to receive wide-body aircraft and increase the passenger traffic up to 100 thousand people a year. All events are held with the aim of attracting the flow of foreign tourists to Russian soil.
