Petrozavodsk Airport
Petrozavodsk Airport Petroskoin Lendoazema Аэропорт Петрозаводск | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Civil/military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia | ||||||||||
| Serves | Petrozavodsk | ||||||||||
| Location | Besovets, Russia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 151 ft / 46 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 61°53′6″N 034°9′24″E / 61.88500°N 34.15667°E | ||||||||||
| Website | karelavia.ru | ||||||||||
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Petrozavodsk Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Петрозаводск, Karelian: Petroskoin lendoazema; (IATA: PES, ICAO: ULPB); ex: Besovets, Petrozavodsk-2) is a joint civil-military airport in Russia located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets, Shuya Rural Settlement (municipality). It services small airliners. It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space.
The airfield has seen military use as an interceptor base. During the 1960s or 1970s Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft were based at Besovets. During the 1970s it was home to the 991st Fighter Aviation Regiment (991 IAP), which flew Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 'Foxbat' aircraft. In 1992-93, the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment (159 IAP) transferred in from Poland, having left the 4th Air Army.[1] It flies the Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft and is now part of the 54th Air Defence Corps, 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army.
Airlines and destinations
Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| 2nd Arkhangelsk United Aviation Division | Arkhangelsk, Kotlas |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo[2] |
Accidents and incidents
On 20 June 2011, a RusAir Tupolev TU-134, Flight 9605, operating for RusLine, with 43 passengers and nine crew crash landed, broke up, and caught fire on a highway short of the runway 01 at Petrozavodsk Airport while en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people and leaving five survivors.[3]
References
- ^ Hans Nijhuis and Robert Senkowski, 'Farewell Poland!,' Air International, January 1993
- ^ "S7 Airlines launches flights to Petrozavodsk". www.s7.ru. S7 Airlines. Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Crash: Rusair T134 at Petrozavodsk on Jun 20th 2011, impacted road short of runway". The Aviation Herald. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
External links
- Airport Official website Template:Ru icon
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- Airport information for ULPB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- Accident history for PES at Aviation Safety Network
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