Kavminvodyavia
KMV Tu-154M at Moscow airport
The State United Venture Kavminvodyavia (KMV Avia) is a Russian airline based in the city of Mineralnye Vody in the Caucasus. The company also operates the airport of the city.
The first air operation dates from 1925, when the one aircraft was a French Dornue-Comet.
The present three-story airport building opened in 1965.
The airport and its civil aviation service was reorganized into the Mineralnye Vody Civil Aviation Enterprise in 1988, under the direction of V.V. Babaskin. It was reorganized again in 1995, receiving its present name.
The airline purchased several Tu-204s in 1997.
