Tiksi Airport
Airport in Sakha Republic, Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
Operator | Russian Aerospace Forces | ||||||||||
Location | Tiksi | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 26 ft / 8 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 71°41′51″N 128°54′10″E | ||||||||||
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The only scheduled service to Tiksi is by an Antonov An-24 turboprop airplane.[citation needed]
The base is home to the Aviation Command, 200th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the Mil Mi-8 (NATO: Hip) of the 326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.[1]