Ramenskoye Airport
About Ramenskoye Airport
Ramenskoye Airport is an airport, located at Zhukovskiy, Moskovskaya Oblast', Russia. Visit their website uk.wikipedia.org for more detailed information.
Zhukovsky Airfield, also known as Ramenskoye Airport, 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 the Ministry of Emergency Situations and cargo transportation. This airfield was also used as a test site for the Soviet Buran Spacecraft.
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 public-use runway, at 17,723 ft.
