Yakutsk Airport

Yakutsk Airport Аэропорт Якутск / Дьокуускай Аэропорт
IATA: YKS – ICAO: UEEE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Yakutsk Airport State Enterprise
Serves	Yakutsk
Location	Yakutsk, Russia
Hub for	Yakutia Airlines Polar Airlines
Elevation AMSL	99 m / 325 ft
Coordinates	62°05′36″N 129°46′14″E / 62.09333°N 129.77056°ECoordinates: 62°05′36″N 129°46′14″E / 62.09333°N 129.77056°E
Website	www.airport-yakutsk.ru
Maps
Sakha Republic in Russia
YKS Location of the airport in the Sakha Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 05L/23R Closed 2,500 8,202 Concrete 05R/23L 3,400 11,155 Asphalt
Sources:GCM,[1] STV[2]

Yakutsk Airport (Yakut: Дьокуускай Аэропорт, Russian: Аэропо́рт Яку́тск) (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.^[3][4]

Yakutsk has another, smaller airport at Magan.

Airlines and destinations

Ilyushin Il-76 parked at Yakutsk Airport.

Domodedovo Airlines Ilyushin Il-62M parked at Yakutsk Airport in 1998.

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aeroflot operated by Aurora	Vladivostok[5]
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise	Lensk, Mirny
Angara Airlines	Irkutsk,[6] Novosibirsk[6]
Polar Airlines	Batagay, Belaya Gora, Cherskiy, Chokurdakh, Deputatskiy, Irkutsk, Lensk, Moma, Nyurba, Olekminsk, Olenek, Sakkyryr, Saskylakh, Srednekolymsk, Suntar, Tiksi, Ust-Kuyga, Ust-Maya, Ust-Nera, Verkhnevilyuisk, Vilyuisk, Zyryanka
Nordwind Airlines	Charter: Nha Trang
S7 Airlines	Beijing-Capital, Irkutsk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk
Yakutia Airlines	Blagoveschensk, Cherskiy, Chita,[7] Harbin, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Seoul-Incheon, Magadan, Mirny, Moscow-Vnukovo, Neryungri, Novosibirsk, Saint Petersburg, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg Seasonal: Anapa (resumes 19 June 2016),[8] Krasnodar (resumes 1 June 2016),[9] Omsk, Sochi, Tokyo-Narita Seasonal charter: Qinhuangdao (begins 17 June 2016)[10]

Accidents and incidents

Before 1992, Aeroflot had monopoly on Soviet domestic flights, and had a lot of accidents. At least a dozen deadly accidents happened on or near Yakutsk. See Aeroflot 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 Olyokminsk Airport. During the subsequent landing, the nose and port main undercarriage were retracted, causing substantial damage to the aircraft.^[11]

References

1. Airport information for UEEE at Great Circle Mapper.
2. Airport information for Yakutsk Airport at Search (for) Travel website.
3. Boeing-conducted Airport safety and operational assessments
4. New Cross-Polar Routes
5. "Summer timetable Vladivostok Air". Vladivostok Air. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
6. "РАСПИСАНИЕ" (PDF). Angara Airlines. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
7. "Авиакомпания "Якутия" восстанавливает авиаперелеты в Читу". ОАО "Авиакомпания "Якутия". Retrieved 16 May 2014.
8. "Открыта продажа билетов на рейс 469/470 Якутск-Анапа-Якутск". Yakutia Airlines. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
9. "Открыта продажа билетов на рейс 455/456 Якутск-Краснодар-Якутск". Yakutia Airlines. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
10. L, J (13 April 2016). "Yakutia Adds Qinhuangdao Charter from June 2016". Airline Route. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
11. Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Yakutia AN24 at Yakutsk on Feb 4th 2010, rejected takeoff, presumably early gear retraction". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2010.

External links

• Article on Yakutsk Airport
• Airport information for UEEE at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• Airport Yakutsk Aviateka.Handbook