Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport | |
Nativename-A: | Международный аэропорт Якутск имени Платона Ойунского |
Nativename-R: | Платон Ойуунускай аатынан аан дойдутааҕы Дьокуускай аэропорт |
Image2-Width: | 250 |
Iata: | YKS |
Icao: | UEEE |
Lid: | ЯКТ |
Type: | Public |
Operator: | Yakutsk Airport State Enterprise |
City-Served: | Yakutsk |
Location: | Yakutsk, Russia |
Hub: | Yakutia Airlines, Polar Airlines |
Metric-Elev: | y |
Elevation-M: | 99 |
Coordinates: | 62.0933°N 129.7706°W |
Website: | http://yks.aero/ |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Sakha Republic#Russia |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Sakha Republic##Location in Russia |
Pushpin Label: | YKS |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 05L/23R Closed |
R1-Length-M: | 2,500 |
R1-Surface: | Concrete |
R2-Number: | 05/23 |
R2-Length-M: | 3,600 |
R2-Surface: | Asphalt |
Stat-Year: | 2018 |
Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
Stat1-Data: | 908,384 |
Footnotes: | Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[1] |
Platon Oyunsky Yakutsk International Airport (Yakut: Платон Ойуунускай аатынан аан дойдутааҕы Дьокуускай аэропорт, Platon Ojuunuskaj aatynan aan dojdutaaghy Coquusqay Aeroport pronounced as /ɟoquːsˈqaj aeɾoˈpoɾt/; Russian: Международный аэропорт Якутск имени Платона Ойунского, Mezhdunarodnyj aeroport Yakutsk imeni Platona Ojunskogo) 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 it 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.[2] [3]
, the airport has been used by Boeing to test cold weather starting of its aircraft.[4]
Before 1992, Aeroflot had a 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.