Yakutsk Airport

UEEE / YKS

Description

Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport (IATA: YKS, ICAO: UEEE) is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has one runway (an older runway serves as a parking area for disused aircraft) and has a capacity of 700 passengers per hour. The airport is the hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines.

Construction of the airport started in 1931 and was used as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route 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. Yakutsk has another, smaller airport at Magan, used by Boeing to test cold weather starting of its aircraft.

05R/23L  Length: 11155ft  /  3400m, Surface: Concrete

Weather

Management

Sergey Balandin *

Location

Region

Eastern Russia

FIR

Yakutsk

APT coordinates

62.09330, 129.77100 

Elevation

325 ft / ≈99 m

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