Ukrainian Mi-14 overhaul problem solved

A PARTIAL solution to Ukraine’s problem of overhauling naval aircraft has been found through the Konotops’kyy Aviatsiynyy Remontnyy Zavod (KARZ, Konotop Aircraft Repair Plant) ‘Aviakon’. The plant, which specialises in overhauling Mi-8s and Mi-24s, has completed overhaul of one Mi-14PL and is now working on a second. With Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014, the services of the local overhaul plants were no longer available to the Viys’kovo-Mors’ki Syly (VMS, Ukrainian Navy). One of the facilities was the only