Stepanakert Airport
| Stepanakert Airport Ստեփանակերտի Օդանավակայան Xankəndi Hava Limanı Степанакертский аэропорт |
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| ICAO code | UBBS |
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| Height above MSL | 610 m (2001 ft ) |
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| Distance from the city center | 8 km northwest of Stepanakert, Arzach (de facto) Azerbaijan (de jure)
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| 05/23 | 2178 m × 37 m asphalt |
The Stepanakert Airport ( Armenian օդանավակայան Ստեփանակերտի , Azerbaijani Xankəndi Hava Limanı , Russian Степанакертский аэропорт ) is the airport of Stepanakert , the capital of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh under international law a part of Azerbaijan . It is located about 8 km from the city, near the city of Xocalı . It is the home airport of the future Nagorno-Karabakh Airlines Artsakh Air .
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Located at an altitude of 610 meters, Stepanakert Airport has an asphalt runway of 2178 meters and a width of 37 meters.
history
Stepanakert Airport was built in 1974 in Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast ; before the Nagorno-Karabakh War , flights were offered to Yerevan , the capital of Armenia , and Baku , the capital of Azerbaijan . In 1991 it was closed by Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . The Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces captured the airport on February 22, 1992 together with nearby Xocalı .
Seriously damaged in the war, the airport was renovated in 2009 by the Karabakh government. The runway was repaired and a new airport terminal was built. The announcement of their reopening in May 2011 led the Azerbaijani authorities to warn that any aircraft attempting to land at the airport could be destroyed. The reopening was then postponed for technical reasons and was announced regularly afterwards. The certification of the airport was announced on October 1, 2012.
Incidents
- On August 1, 1990 from was Yerevan ( Armenia coming) Yakovlev Yak-40 of Aeroflot ( air vehicle registration number 87453 CCCP ) flown during the approach to the airport Stepanakert in poor visibility against a mountain. None of the 46 occupants survived this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ).
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Karabakh To Reopen Stepanakert Airport. Asbarez, October 5, 2010, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Stepanakert. World Aero Data, accessed October 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Krikor Amirzayan: Derniers preparatifs techniques avant l'ouverture de l'aéroport de Stepanakert. (No longer available online.) Nouvelles d'Arménie Magazine, January 10, 2013, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; Retrieved January 10, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ МИД НКР: Баку не оставляет попыток дезинформировать международное сообщество. Regnum , February 26, 2005, accessed October 15, 2012 (Russian).
- ↑ Giorgi Lomsadze: Azerbaijan: Flights to Nagorno Karabakh Will Be Boarding at Gunpoint. In: Eurasianet.com. March 17, 2011, accessed October 15, 2012 .
- ↑ John Hughes: Test of Will ?: NKR announces opening of airport as Armenia-Azerbaijan tensions remain high. ArmeniaNow, September 27, 2012, accessed October 15, 2012 .
- ↑ Stepanakert Airport is launched. In: News.am. October 1, 2012, accessed December 29, 2017 .
- ^ Accident report Jak-40 CCCP-87453 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 1, 2020.
