Regional administration: In June-July 2018 the work of Kapan airport will be resumed

ArmInfo. Soon, the L-410 will be  delivered to the city of Kapan in Syunik region. In June-July 2018,  the work of the Kapan airport will be resumed. This was reported to  ArmInfo in the regional administration of Syunik.

"The aircraft, worth 5.5 million euros, was purchased by Zangezour  Copper and Molybdenum Combine and will carry out regular  Yerevan-Kapan-Yerevan flights," the report said.

Back in October of this year, Syunik Governor Vahe Hakobyan said that  on October 4, the Armenian side signed an agreement with one of the  Czech airlines to purchase an L-410 aircraft, which will fly from  Kapan airport after putting it into operation. "The flights will be  carried out every two days, in March this year the plane will be in  Armenia," Hakobyan said. The governor noted that part of the cost of  purchasing the aircraft was taken over by the Zangezur Copper and  Molybdenum Combine. "The plant provided 1.5 million rubles, the  remaining part of the amount will be received in the leasing format,"  he said, adding that the final cost of tickets has not yet been  determined, but according to preliminary estimates, they will cost  30-40 thousand drams. "There will be subsidized tickets for students,  people with health problems, so that they can immediately fly to  Yerevan," the governor of Syunik said. He noted that at the end of  the first half of 2017 repair work began at the Syunik airport. As of  December 2017, $ 2.5 million was spent on its modernization.

Let L-410 "Turbolet" (other names: L-410, Summer-410, Turbolot) is a  multipurpose twin-engine aircraft for local overhead lines (MVL).  Developed by the design bureau of the Czechoslovak plant Let Kunovice  (now Czech Aircraft Industries) in the late 1960s. The commercial  exploitation of the aircraft began in 1973. It is able to transport  up to 19 passengers or 1800 kg of cargo for a distance of up to 1500  km. It uses GE engines H80-200.