Irkutsk Northwest Airport is an airport in

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located 11 km northwest of

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and , ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 587,891 Irkutsk is the List of cities and towns in Russ ...

. It is a flyaway airfield for the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, and has no parallel taxiways. It is also known as ''Irkutsk II'' airport, and occasionally serves as a

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for the main

Irkutsk International Airport Irkutsk International Airport (Russian: Международный Аэропорт Иркутск) is an international airport on the outskirts of Irkutsk, Russia, at a distance of 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Lake Baikal. Operations The air ...

History

In 1932, the factory Irkutsk Aircraft Plant Stalin 125 was built here, and was expanded in 1941 during

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. By the 1960s it was known as Irkutsk Airframe Plant 39. and was observed by Western satellites in August 1962. It produced the

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Beagle, the

Antonov An-12 The Antonov An-12 ( Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than thr ...

Cub, the

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Brewer, and the

Antonov An-24 The Antonov An-24 (Russian/ Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) (NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by the Kyiv ...

Coke. By the late 1970s the factory was involved in production of the MiG-23U (Flogger C) and ground attack MiG-23B (Flogger D/F), and produced components for the

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Backfire bomber.Irkutsk Airframe Plant 39
April 1979, National Photographic Interpretation Center, Washington, DC. The factory is now known as the Irkutsk Aviation Plant.

Accidents and Incidents

* On 6 December 1997, a Russian Air Force Antonov An-124-100 en route to Cam Ranh Air Base in Vietnam, crashed in a residential area shortly after takeoff.

References

RussianAirFields.com
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