A solar-powered plane flown by Russian explorer and voyager Fyodor Konyukhov landed at Tabasko Airfield in Crimea on Saturday to reach its final destination, the airfield’s owner Sergei Shevchuk told TASS.

On Friday, Konyukhov was planning to complete the flight in daylight hours along the following route: Moscow Region (Severka Airfield) - Voronezh (Usman) - Rostov-on-Don (Olginskaya) - Yevpatoriya (Tabasko Airfield). Due to bad weather, his plane landed at Gostagayevskaya Airfield in the Krasnodar Region and continued the flight to Crimea on Saturday morning. The thunderstorm delayed his takeoff from Crimea’s Koktebel Airfield. Russian Gliding Federation President Sergei Ryabchinsky was onboard the flight alongside Konyukhov.

"It’s all right. The plane has just landed. Everything is OK," Shevchuk said noting that such a flight was first in Crimea.

"There has been nothing like that before. It is the first flight of a solar-powered plane in Crimea’s aviation history," he added.

Tabasko is the only airfield in Crimea for aircraft lighter than 5.7 tonnes. It was opened in 2009 and is located in the village of Velikoye in the Saki region. Shevchuk is a member of the same club of round-the-world travelers as Konyukhov. In 2012, Shevchuk flew a light single-engine aircraft from the Crimean spa city of Yevpatoriya to continental Europe’s northernmost point of North Cape, thus setting a non-stop flight record for light aircraft in Ukraine. He covered the distance of 7,333 kilometers in 26 hours 32 minutes.