Tiksi Airport

Coordinates: 71°41′51″N 128°54′10″E / 71.69750°N 128.90278°E / 71.69750; 128.90278
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Tiksi Airport
AMSL
26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates71°41′51″N 128°54′10″E / 71.69750°N 128.90278°E / 71.69750; 128.90278
Map
IKS is located in Sakha Republic
IKS
IKS
Location of the airport in the Sakha Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
03/21 9,845 3,001 Concrete
Polar Airlines Antonov An-26 at Tiksi Airport (2017)

Tiksi Aerodrome (

Tiksi West
have been abandoned for decades, and are probably unusable, according to satellite imagery.

The only scheduled service to Tiksi is by an Antonov An-24 turboprop airplane.[citation needed]

The base is home to the Aviation Command, 200th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the Mil Mi-8 (NATO: Hip) of the 326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.[1]

2012 closure

Russian Border Guards Antonov An-72P taking off from Tiksi Airport, 2017

The airport was closed without notice on October 1, 2012 by its owner, the Defense Ministry, due to the runway being unsafe and needing repair work.

Dmitri Medvedev said in April 2013 "the Ministry of Defence committed a real mistake to jeopardize the existence of an entire village. This is an outrage.".[3] Negotiations between the Defence Ministry and Yakutia government led to an agreement to Antonov An-24
service starting in June 2013.

Reconstruction of the runway in several phases was scheduled for 2013, with completion by about 2015 or 2016; the current (fall 2023) state of affairs is not clear. In July 2014,

ITAR TASS reported Roman Filimonov (Head of the Defence Ministry's Construction department), announcing that Russia would be building six military towns in their Arctic region. “These will be closed zones with comfortable living and service conditions,” he said, adding “We’re restoring the infrastructure of the Tiksi airport. We hope that the construction will be completed next year.”[4]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Polar AirlinesYakutsk
Yakutia AirlinesMoscow–Vnukovo,[5] Yakutsk

Accidents & incidents

External links

References

  1. ^ "Russian Air Force - Tiksi (UEST)". Scramble.nl. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  2. ^ Якутский аэропорт Тикси закрыт для приема и отправки рейсов до декабря, причины не названы. Газета.ru (in Russian). Moscow. October 3, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  3. rg.ru (in Russian). Moscow
    . April 1, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  4. ^ "Aviation bombers gets sudden financial boost from Moscow". Famagusta Gazette. July 27, 2014. Archived from the original on July 27, 2014.
  5. ^ "Возобновляется рейс Тикси - Москва". Yakutian-Sakha information agency. 16 May 2014. Archived from the original on 16 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Минобороны сообщило, что все пассажиры и экипаж Ил-18 выжили".
  7. ^ https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20161219 [dead link]


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