Thursday, June 8 2017 17:19

ArmInfo. Vahe Hakobyan, the  region's governor, personally participated in the first experimental  landing at the regional airport of Kapan city, Syunik region of  Armenia. The flight and landing were carried out on a light sport  airplane.

The Kapan city airport in the south east of Armenia was not exploited  during last decades. Meanwhile, the source in DGCA (Deneral  department of Civil Aviation), in an unofficial talk with ArmInfo  said that the investment program of this regional is not yet  implemented, the airport is not yet certificated.      

Vahe Hakobyan, the region's governor who personally attended the  flight, in a discussion with journalists said that the pilot is a  specialist from Russia, who was to estimate the condition of the  runway, conditions for take-off and landing. He also said that the  investment program will cost $2 million USD. "Despite the fact that  the airfield did not work more than 25 years, our flight was  successful," the governor said. He informed that construction works  are currently underway, there is a project of the main airport  building.  The work will be carried out in accordance with all the  necessary standards. The governor noted that the need to operate the  airport is conditioned by the desire to resume the air communication  of the region with the country's capital and other regions. Answering  a question about whether it is possible to carry out flights from the  Kapan airport to the NKR capital Stepanakert, the governor  theoretically did not rule out this: "In any case, nothing hinders  this". Speaking about the availability of flights for the population,  the governor assured that all the calculations have already been  made, the tickets will be so affordable that regular passenger  traffic will be guaranteed.