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Airport type
  
Public/Military

Location
  
Kaliningrad, Russia

Website
  
kgd.aero

Code
  
KGD

Phone
  
+7 401 261-04-15

Serves
  
Kaliningrad

Elevation AMSL
  
42 ft / 13 m

06/24
  
8,202

Elevation
  
13 m

Khrabrovo Airport

Address
  
пос. Храброво, Kaliningrad, Гурьевский р-он, Калининградская область, Russia, 238315

Khrabrovo Airport (Russian Аэропорт Храброво) (IATA: KGD, ICAO: UMKK) is the airport of Kaliningrad, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) north of the city near the village of Khrabrovo. While it mostly serves scheduled domestic destinations, part of it is still a military base of the Russian Air Force.

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khrabrovo airport approach landing cockpit view


History

  • 1922 - Joint Russian-German joint venture Deruluft starts flights on first scheduled international route, from Königsberg (Devau airport) - Moscow
  • 1945 - Airport is transferred to Civil Air Fleet of USSR
  • 1961 - Joint Air Squadron formed at the basis of airport and airline
  • 1977 - Operations of Tupolev-134 begin
  • 1979 - Passenger terminal is built in Khrabrovo
  • 1988 - Tupolev-154s begin operations to Kaliningrad
  • 1992 - Enterprise separates from Vnukovo Production association and becomes independent entity
  • 1993 - First scheduled international flights begin. Two Tupolev-154s are purchased
  • 1997 - Air enterprise is renamed “Kaliningrad Avia”
  • 2001 - Air enterprise is in receivership
  • 2002 - Change of ownership structure. Transformation into Joint Stock Company
  • 2004 – Beginning of reconstruction of runway, apron, navigation equipment
  • 2005 – Air enterprise renamed “KD Avia”
  • 2007 - opening of the new terminal
  • 2009 - "KD Avia" airlines cease operations

    • Passengers statistics

    Passenger numbers are also rising, and are set to rise even more with the introduction of more routes:

  • 2002 - 163,000
  • 2003 - 115,000
  • 2004 - 209,000
  • 2005 - 311,000
  • 2006 - 731,626
  • 2007 - 1,204,060
  • 2008 - 1,920,000
  • 2009 - 1,357,000
  • 2010 - 1,023,990
  • 2011 - 1,229,017
  • 2014 - 1,460,054

    • Ground transportation

    The city bus line No. 144 by Koenigtransauto (Кёнигтрансавто) connects the airport with the Kaliningrad Main Bus/Railway Station.

    References

    Khrabrovo Airport Wikipedia
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