Tunoshna Airport

Yaroslavl (Tunoshna) International Airport Международный аэропорт Ярославль (Туношна)
IATA: IAR – ICAO: UUDL
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Yaroslavl
Location	Yaroslavl, Russia
Elevation AMSL	285 ft / 87 m
Coordinates	57°33′38.40″N 040°9′26.53″E / 57.5606667°N 40.1573694°ECoordinates: 57°33′38.40″N 040°9′26.53″E / 57.5606667°N 40.1573694°E
Website	http://www.yaravia.ru
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05/23 9,842 3,000 Asphalt concrete

Tunoshna (also Tunoshnoye, or Tunoschna) (Russian: Аэропорт Туношна) (IATA: IAR, ICAO: UUDL) is an airport in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located 18 km southeast of Yaroslavl. It is served by medium-sized airliners.

Airlines and destinations

The list of regular services changes frequently. According to the airport's website as of September 2015 the following flights are scheduled:^[1]

Airlines	Destinations
Pobeda	Seasonal: Sochi (begins 1 June 2016)[2]
Severstal Air	Seasonal: Sochi[3]

History

During the Cold War it was a key interceptor aircraft base. It was home to 415 IAP (415th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23P aircraft during the 1980s and 1990s.^[4] This unit was decommissioned in 1992 and the planes were sent to Rzhev.

Accidents and incidents

On September 7, 2011, a Yak-Service Yak-42, carrying the KHL hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to Minsk, crashed on take-off from Tunoshna, killing 44 of the 45 occupants.^[5][6]

References

1. "Flight schedule" (in Russian). Tunoshna Airport. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
2. "Лоукостер "Победа" вводит первые регулярные авиарейсы между Сочи и Ярославлем". ТАСС. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
3. "Открылось авиасообщение между Ярославлем и Сочи". «АиФ-Верхняя Волга». 15 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
4. "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI.
5. "The Aviation Herald". avherald.com.
6. "List of those killed in plane crash near Yaroslavl" (in Russian). sovsport.ru. 2011-09-07. Retrieved 2011-09-07.

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