Yakutsk Airport
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| Yakutsk Airport Аэропо́рт Яку́тск |
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IATA: YKS – ICAO: UEEE
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Yakutsk Airport State Enterprise | ||
| Location | Yakutsk | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 324 ft / 99 m | ||
| Coordinates | 62°05′36″N 129°46′18″E / 62.09333°N 129.77167°E | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 05L/23R Closed | 8,202 | 2,500 | Concrete |
| 05R/23L | 11,155 | 3,400 | Asphalt |
Yakutsk Airport (Russian: Аэропо́рт Яку́тск) (IATA: YKS, ICAO: UEEE) is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has two runways (one active, the other serving as a parking ground for disused aircraft) and a capacity of 700 passengers per hour.
The airport is hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Sakha Avia.
Construction of the airport started in 1931 and was used as a stopover for American planes flying to Europe during World War II. The present international terminal was built in 1996. The airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar route 4.[1][2]
Yakutsk has another, smaller airport at Magan.
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise | Lensk, Mirny, Polyarny |
| Eznis Airways | Ulan Bator |
| Polar Airlines | Batagai, Belaya Gora, Cherskiy, Chokurdakh, Deputatskiy, Irkutsk, Moma, Nyubra, Olekminsk, Olenek, Sakkyryr, Saskylakh, Srednekolymsk, Suntar, Tiksi, Ust-Kuiga, Ust-Maya, Verkhnevilyuisk, Vilyuisk, Zyryanka |
| S7 Airlines | Beijing-Capital [begins 9 March], Irkutsk [begins 9 June], Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Ural Airlines | Yekaterinburg |
| Vladivostok Avia | Khabarovsk, Vladivostok |
| Yakutia Airlines | Blagoveschensk, Cherskiy, Harbin, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Moscow-Vnukovo, Neryungri, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Saint Petersburg, Sapporo-Chitose, Seoul-Incheon, Sochi, Tokyo-Narita, Ulan Bator, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok |
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On 4 February 2010, Yakutia Airlines Flight 425, operated by Antonov An-24 RA-47360 suffered an engine failure on take-off for Olekminsk Airport. During the subsequent landing, the nose and port main undercarriage were retracted, causing substantial damage to the aircraft.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Boeing-conducted Airport safety and operational assessments
- ^ New Cross-Polar Routes
- ^ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Yakutia AN24 at Yakutsk on Feb 4th 2010, rejected takeoff, presumably early gear retraction". Aviation Herald. http://avherald.com/h?article=426cc69e&opt=0. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
[edit] External links
- Article on Yakutsk Airport
- Airport information for UEEE at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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