Restored the legendary Yak-18
“Flying Desk” of Yuri Gagarin found his airfield.
After 30 years desperate struggle and great work unique aircraft found a home. Aviatsentr “resurrection” took over the sponsorship of a unique aircraft (Parking in a hangar, fuel, air navigation security). Yak-18 — a famous plane. It began its flight-path space cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. This is a real “flying Desk”, which gave a start in the sky thousands and thousands of pilots.
Of the plane is very difficult and interesting destiny. Oleg Sergeyevich Kolesnikov, 20 years (1986 to 2006) were collected missing parts for this aircraft in order to achieve complete authenticity of the aircraft to the original down to the last detail, and then Shakhty DOSAAF ARZ (aircraft repair plant) spent the whole complex of restoration work and painting, after which the aircraft received a “ticket to heaven” in the form of state registration and SLG (certificate of airworthiness).
In 2015-2016, the aircraft underwent repairs and painting on MARZ DOSAAF. Repair was given a lot of blood. In the process of painting and washing the shroud was inadvertently caused irreversible damage to the glass cockpit and lost or damaged some unique details that I had almost a year to find all over Russia and neighboring countries.
When choosing a new home base the YAK-18A RA-0394G for 2016-2017, I stopped at a newly built airfield “resurrection”, which was recommended to me by the honored test pilot, Hero of Russia Magomed Tolboev, and have not regretted it — said Oleg Kolesnikov.
In order to preserve the rare instance of the YAK-18A, which is deservedly one of the jewels of the Russian aircraft industry, and its demonstration flights of an effective tool of Patriotic education, Directorate of aeronautical center personnel placed the aircraft in the hangar with the onset of winter. Thus, each interested person can come and see the YAK-18A on the ground and in the air. Can also fly on a Russian gyroplanes, these advanced air vehicles, which manufactures aviation center of German components. Here you learn to fly on their own. In short, the aviation environment. I want to believe that the grain of small aircraft went to “resurrection” in the fertile soil and the established relations and experience sorely needed development.
Interesting coincidence: the President of the aviation center of Ruslan Ustinov, Oleg Kolesnikov not only pilots, but as it turned out, and even colleagues on cinematographic shop. Oleg S. — author and writer of three well-known Soviet films (“hearts of three”, “hearts of three-2” and the Comedy Gaidai “danger”), and Ruslan V. Ustinov (incidentally the son of the famous Soviet and Russian designer Valentin Leonidovich gyros Ustinov) acted as the producer and sponsor of the highest-grossing (2014) 3D film “Viy”, which also played a major role.
Aviatsentr “resurrection” in his nearly ten-year history has become one of the leading private airports in Russia and today offers a comprehensive range of services in the field of General aviation, including aircraft based in hangars and outdoors, refueling, maintenance, registration of aircraft and the design of SLG training. AC “resurrection” of the clock takes the aircraft take-off mass up to 5.7 tons. Location 75 km from MKAD (at the intersection of highways M-5 and A-108) provides easy accessibility for owners and pilots of aircraft. But in addition, the aviation center is an attractive location for beginners and aviation enthusiasts.
A look at the aviation center has what on his site is several modern enterprises of small aircraft. First, in the territory of AC “resurrection” deployed the Assembly shop of the company “Autogyro Russland”, where German components produce the domestic auto-gyro MTO Sport, Kalidus and Cavalon. Secondly, the company is based Aviatsentr “Flitzer” is official dealer of Cessna in Russia. In addition to selling new and resource planes, “Fleetcenter” performs the supply of aircraft spare parts and provides certified, FAP-285 airplane, helicopter, gyroplane with a Lycoming, Continental, Rotax.
Victor Galenko