Pskov Airport
Princess Olga Pskov Airport is an airfield in Pskov Oblast, Russia located 6 km southeast of Pskov. It is a medium air base with 27 large revetments in a complex, sprawling taxiway layout. The civilian terminal area services 13 medium/large planes and 20 small planes. There is no instrument landing capability.
The airfield dates to 1955 or earlier when intelligence sources reported four-engine aircraft operating on 2500-meter runways. In the 1960s the airfield hosted about two dozen Antonov An-10 Cat and Antonov An-12 Cub transports. In the 1970s the aircraft were upgraded to Ilyushin Il-76 jets, operated by the 334 VTAP. In 1984 the airfield had a normal complement of 27 Il-76 aircraft.
Scheduled passenger flights are operated by Embraer 120 and Fokker 50.
In 1990s regular flights were interrupted due to a significant reduction of the demand for passenger and cargo air service. After a short-lived air connection to Moscow operated by Eurasia Airlines in 2003, scheduled airline services were not resumed before May 2007. In the beginning these services were operated by St. Petersburg based carrier Vyborg Airlines but has since then been taken over by UTair Aviation and Atlant-Soyuz and later discontinued.
In 2009 two airlines announced they would serve the airport. Region-Avia started flights to Moscow-Vnukovo and airBaltic announced international services to its Riga hub. The latter services were cancelled in December 2009 due to the state of the runway during winter.
