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Tiksi Aerodrome (IATA: IKS, ICAO: UEST) is located 1 km (0.6 mi) northeast of Tiksi, Russia, and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States (as a so-called 'bounce' aerodrome^{[clarification needed]}). It is used regularly by Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft in military exercises, including one in 1999, in which bombers practice travelling to the Canadian arctic^{[citation needed]}. Two other nearby airfields known as Tiksi North and Tiksi West have been abandoned for decades, and are probably unusable, according to satellite imagery.

Tiksi Airport
IATA: IKS ICAO: UEST LID: ТСИ
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Russian Air Force
Location	Tiksi
Elevation AMSL	26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates	71°41′51″N 128°54′10″E
Map
IKS Location of the airport in the Sakha Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 03/21 9,845 3,001 Concrete

According to some website, a total of 50 seats are flown into Tiksi Airport every day^{[citation needed]}. The only scheduled service to Tiksi is by an Antonov An-24 turboprop airplane.^{[citation needed]}

2012 closure

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.[1] The closure was not coordinated with local or state government. Though the city was connected by winter roads, the loss of air service impaired the delivery of medicine, food and other essential goods, and in February 2013 boilers in the city went out of service for an extended period. The issue rose to the highest levels of Russian government. Prime Minister 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.".[2] 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 is scheduled for 2013 with completion by about 2015 or 2016.

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.”[3]

This article needs to be updated. (December 2018)

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Polar Airlines	Yakutsk
Yakutia Airlines	Moscow–Vnukovo,[4] Yakutsk

Accidents & incidents

• On 19 December 2016, an Il-18 of the Russian Air Force crashed on approach to the aerodrome. There were no fatalities among the 39 occupants, but several were carried to hospital injured.[5][6]

External links

• (in Russian) Airport Tiksi Aviateka.Handbook

References

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Tiksi

Der Flughafen Tiksi (russisch Аэропорт Тикси) befindet sich vier Kilometer nordöstlich von Tiksi, Russland, und wurde in den 1950er Jahren als Sammelpunkt für Bomber der sowjetischen Fernfliegerkräfte errichtet, damit diese die Vereinigten Staaten erreichen können. Er wird regelmäßig von Tupolew Tu-95 bei Militärübungen genutzt, beispielsweise 1999, als Bomber Flüge in die Kanadische Arktis übten. Zwei Flugplätze in der Nähe (Tiksi Nord und Tiksi West) sind seit Jahrzehnten verlassen und, wie auf Satellitenbildern zu sehen, nicht mehr nutzbar.

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- [en] Tiksi Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto de Tiksi

El Aeropuerto de Tiksi (en ruso, Аэропорт Тикси; ICAO: UEST; IATA: IKS), se encuentra 1 km al noreste de Tiksi, en la República de Sajá (Yakutia), Rusia.

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[fr] Aéroport de Tiksi

L'aéroport de Tiksi est un aéroport militaire russe situé à 7 kilomètres au nord de Tiksi, en République de Sakha.

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[it] Aeroporto di Tiksi

L'aeroporto di Tiksi (in russo: Аэропорт Тикси?) è un aeroporto civile e una base aerea militare russa.

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[ru] Тикси (аэропорт)

Тикси — аэропорт в Якутии, расположенный в Булунском районе в 7 км севернее посёлка Тикси. На аэродроме базируется Якутское республиканское предприятие «ОАО Авиакомпания „Полярные авиалинии"», а также государственная авиация Минобороны России и ФСБ РФ.

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