Polar Airlines Antonov An-26B-100 (RA-26030) at Tiksi Airport

Tiksi Aerodrome is located 1 km (0.6 mi) northeast of

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, and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for

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bombers to reach the

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(as a so-called 'bounce' aerodrome). It is used regularly by

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aircraft in military exercises, including one in 1999, in which bombers practice travelling to the

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. Two other nearby airfields known as

Tiksi North Tiksi North is a former Russian military airfield located 41 km north of Tiksi in Bulunsky District, Sakha Republic. Described as a ghost airfield, its probable use was either as a diversion or dispersal airfield for Soviet bombers. It was ...

and

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have been abandoned for decades, and are probably unusable, according to satellite imagery. The only scheduled service to Tiksi is by an

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turboprop airplane. The base is home to the Aviation Command, 200th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the

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(NATO: Hip) of the

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2012 closure

Russian Border Guards Antonov An-72P (RF-72020) rotates at Tiksi

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. 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

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said in April 2013 "the Ministry of Defence committed a real mistake to jeopardize the existence of an entire village. This is an outrage.". Negotiations between the Defence Ministry and Yakutia government led to an agreement to

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,

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reported

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(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.”

Airlines and destinations

Accidents & incidents

* On 19 December 2016, an Il-18 of the

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crashed on approach to the aerodrome. There were no fatalities among the 39 occupants, but several were carried to hospital injured.https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20161219

External links

Airport Tiksi
Aviateka.Handbook

References

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