The public joint-stock company "Scientific - Production Enterprise" Vzlet" history had originated in 1963, when the Research Flight- Test Center (NILITS) had been founded and headed by the Hero of the Soviet Union Valentine S. Grizodubova.
The NILITS was transformed into "Scientific - Production Enterprise" Vzlet" in 1972 and became one of leading companies referring to the enterprises of the Ministry for Radio -Industry of the former -USSR (now entered into the Russian Control Systems Agency). Since 1994 "Vzlet" is reorganized into a joint-stock company.
"Vzlet" is the company with a diverse infrastructure. "Vzlet" possesses many manufacturing and administrative buildings, storage and garage facilities, helicopters and a helidrome, a construction workshop, a boiler-house and various social facilities. "Vzlet's" personnel consist of a scientific staff, pilots, engineers and highly - qualified technicians with considerable experience in flight tests and development of electronic devices.
"Vzlet" disposes a fenced and protected territory with the certified helidrome in Moscow (Solntsevo district) and provides stationing and maintaining helicopters up to 20 different modifications. The helidrome equipment and essential services availability allow to implement flights 24-hours a day. "Vzlet" is situated within 2 km outside the Moscow Circular Highway (MKAD) between two highways - Borovskoe shosse (continuation of Michurinsky prospect) and Kievskoe shosse (continuation of Leninsky prospect), the short distance from the main arterial roads and underground stations allows to use "Vzlet's" helidrome and its territory very effectively.
All "Vzlet's" basic activities are certified and licensed. Our company possesses "The Operator Certificate No 52" and a license for aviation operations in Russia, CIS and abroad.
Besides, our company has a license of the Ministry of Economy for developing the flying labs, performing the flight tests and researches, and also a air-photography license of the Geodesy and Cartography Federal Service. Our aviation staff (test-pilots, test-navigators, test - flight engineers of the 1-st and 2-nd grades having the civil aviation specialists qualification of the same grades, as well) and the certified technical-engineering staff are authorized to operate the following Mil and Kamov helicopters: Mi-8 (all modifications), Mi-2, Ka - 32, heavy lift helicopters Mi-26, Mi-10.
Our aviation staff is experienced in operating both in conditions of the dense urban building-up in CIS countries or abroad and over forests, water surface and mountains in different climatic regions of the world.
Since 1991 "Vzlet" implements heliworks to satisfy Moscow municipal needs (ecological monitoring of the city and its air basin; monitoring of heat and electrical utilities; implementing the construction works and different kinds of aerial photography). Since 1992 "Vzlet" works in the interests of the Internal Affaires City Board (GUVD) operating a chopper Bell-206 (since 1995 - helicopter Ka - 32A2). Our company accumulated wide experience in organizing, maintaining and implementing flights over Moscow in coordination with various municipal and federal services. The optimum flight routes and landing places have been specified in the city. The issues of coordination with departments of the Air Traffic Unified Control System, the Airforce General Headquarters of Russia, Federal Security Service (FSB), the Federal Guarding Service (FSO), the GUVD and the Civil Aviation State Service of Russia (GSGA) have been fixed.
In compliance with the 16-th Airforce Army commander decree, the Flying -Control Center (KPD) of helidrome "Solntsevo" controls all flights of all air vessels over Moscow. Regarding to order No233 of the Russian Federation Air Service (FAS, nowadays GSGA) by 30.10.97 the Moscow Regional Rescue and Search Base (MRPSB) had been founded on helidrome "Solntsevo", as "Vzlet's" division in 1998. The main goal of the MRPSB is the search and rescue maintenance of Civil Aviation flights in the Central Russia in case of emergency accidents.