Gromov Flight Research Institute

Gromov Flight Research Institute
Native name
Лётно-исследовательский институт имени М. М. Громова
Company typeJoint-stock company
IndustryAerospace
Founded1941; 83 years ago (1941)
FounderMikhail Gromov
Headquarters,
Russia
Area served
Europe and Asia
OwnerRussian Federation
ParentUnited Aircraft Corporation[1]
Websitewww.lii.ru (in Russian)

The Gromov Flight Research Institute or GFRI for short (Russian: Лётно-исследовательский институт имени М. М. Громова, Russian: ЛИИ) is an important Russian State Research Centre which operates an aircraft test base located in Zhukovsky, 40 km south-east of Moscow. The airfield is also known as Ramenskoye air base.

The airfield was used as the backup landing site for the Shuttle Buran test program and also as a test base for a Buran's aerodynamic prototype BTS-002.

GFRI periodically hosts the MAKS International Air Show (Aviasalon).

At present, GFRI also hosts Zhukovsky International Airport.

  1. ^ "Companies". UAC Russia (in Russian). Retrieved May 18, 2017.