Turlatovo is an abandoned airport in Ryazan, located 15 kilometers towards the southeastern part of the city, in the vicinity of the village of the same name and not far from the Moscow - Chelyabinsk highway
The structure of the airline includes:
- land plot with an area of almost 70 hectares
- runway covered with asphalt concrete and a length of 1, 2 km
- special-purpose buildings - fuel storage, hangars, warehouses, repair shops, air terminal, administrative premises, dormitory and utility rooms)
The airport began its activity in 1959, when a flight squadron was created, serving regular cargo, mail and passenger air traffic. Until the early 90s, the airport was the main airline of the Ryazan region. Flights to Gorky, Sverdlovsk, Adler, Kharkov, and other cities of the former Soviet Union departed from here every day.
The small terminal building had a minimum of services for receiving and dispatching flights. A cozy waiting room for several dozen seats, a room for a mother and a child, a storage room. The press Union kiosk, post office, telephone, telegraph were in operation.
However, in the early 90s, when the Soviet Union ceased to exist, due to the high cost of air tickets, the number of passengers wishing to use air transport sharply decreased.
The constant rise in the cost of fuel for aircraft made it impossible for the population to use such an expensive service as a flight on small aircraft. The share of the price of aviation fuel in relation to the cost of the ticket was (and still is) more than 40%, while according to all laws of economics it should exceed 20%. Therefore, the airport in Ryazan, like many Russian airports, has minimized regular passenger and cargo air travel. A difficult time has come for the Ryazan airport.
By the end of the 1990s, the airline ceased operations. Most of the aircraft were sold, some were disassembled for spare parts, the rest were written off and scrapped. In 2001, like many airports in Russia, the airport in Ryazan was excluded from the Register of Russian airports.
Currently, the airport is the property of OJSC Ryazan Airlines and is used mainly for training flights of sports aero clubs, as well as as a landing site for small aircraft.
