Yevpatoria aircraft repair plant Evpatoria Aviation Repair Plant[1] Євпаторійський авіаційний ремонтний завод | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Location | Yevpatoria,Crimea | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 33 ft / 10 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°13′32″N33°22′36″E / 45.22556°N 33.37667°E /45.22556; 33.37667 | ||||||||||
| Website | http://www.earz.narod.ru/main.html | ||||||||||
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  UKFE Location of Yevpatoria Airport in Crimea | |||||||||||
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Yevpatoria Airport "Yevpatoria aircraft repair plant" (Ukrainian:Євпаторійський авіаційний ремонтний завод,Russian:Евпаторийский авиационный ремонтный завод) (ICAO:UKFE) is an airport inYevpatoria,Crimea. The airport is located just east of the city.
The airport has been used by the:
TheState enterprise of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "Evpatoria aircraft repair plant" (Also known asEARZ) was founded on November 25, 1939 (took roots in 1926). On November 12, 1991 passenger aircraftYak-42 landed at the aerodrome "Evpatoria". From that moment the plant became the firstmilitaryenterprise that was allowed to repaircivil aircraft.
The plant has relations withIndia,Angola,Bulgaria,Mexico, Columbia and various air companies of the world.
Since 1995 the plant has maintained relations with theAntonov Design Bureau. One result of such a cooperation was mastering ofAn-12 maintenance by EARZ specialists. Then, in 1999, the plant began the mastering of periodic maintenance and works on maintenance certification of aircraftAn-24,An-26 andAn-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 standardsISO 9000,AS 9000, national and international Aviation Regulations.[5]
To implement the General Plan of city of Evpatoria, as well as the Strategic Plan for Economic and Social Development of Evpatoria for the period up to 2015, state-owned enterprise of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Evpatoria aircraft repair plant in conjunction with the Directorate of Investment Policy and Foreign Economic Relations of Evpatoria city council developed the concept of business project plan to build inEvpatoria Airport.
Executive Committee in accordance with the decision of the City Council sent a letter to theMinister of Defence with the request to transfer to communal ownership of the territorial community of the city of Evpatoria runway with the adjacent military airfield taxiway grade 2.
The aim of this project is to create high-tech enterprise, which in the long term can serve multimodule passenger and freight node Western Crimea.[6]