Kiev International Airport
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| Kiev (Zhuliany) International Airport Міжнародний аеропорт "Київ" (Жуляни) |
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| IATA: IEV - ICAO: UKKK | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Kiev | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 587 ft (179 m) | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 8/26 | 5,906 | 1,800 | Concrete |
Kiev (Zhuliany) International Airport (Ukrainian: Міжнародний аеропорт "Київ" (Жуляни)) (IATA: IEV, ICAO: UKKK) is one of the two passenger airports of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. It is located in the Zhuliany neighbourhood in the south of the city.
The airport is officially named "Kiev", because it is owned by the city community. However it is not the main Kiev airport. In the 1960s the larger Boryspil International Airport was built near the city of Boryspil. Since that time the old "Kiev" airport became commonly known just as "Zhuliany" (or Kiev-Zhuliany), while it still keeps the official "Kiev" name.
In Soviet times Kiev-Zhuliany was used for domestic flights only. After independence it began receiving some international flights from nearby countries.
Surrounded by residential districts, the airport has no possibility for expansion and is severely limited in types and MTOW of aircraft, certificated to operate there.
The airport also features an aviation museum where many unique aircraft are displayed, and a major aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul company, ARP-410, is located nearby.
Apart from Zhuliany and Boryspil, Kiev has a cargo airport situated in the neighbouring town of Gostomel. Gostomel Airport is operated by Antonov plane-manufacturing company and it is home for Antonov Airlines.
Recentely some of its territory was handed over to create presentely the largest aviation museum in Ukraine, exhibiting some unique Soviet examples, including original prototypes for famous airliners.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
- Aerostar Airlines (Zaporizhia, Kharkov)
- Air Urga (Simferopol)
- ChallengeAero (Simferopol)
- Carpatair (Bucharest-Otopeni, Timişoara)
- City Star Airlines (Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Vinnytsya)
- Euroline (Batumi)
- Georgian National Airlines (Tbilisi)
- Illych-Avia (Mariupol, Khmelnitskiy)
- Lugansk Airlines (Lugansk)
- Lviv Airlines (Batumi, Kharkiv, Simferopol, Uzhhorod)
- Mars RK (Simferopol, Uzhhorod)
- Motor Sich (Simferopol)
- South Airlines (Odessa, Kryviy Rig)
- TAM Air (Tbilisi)
- UM Airlines (Simferopol, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod)
[edit] External links
- (Ukrainian) Official website of the airport
- Airport information for UKKK at World Aero Data
- NOAA/NWS current weather observations
- ASN Accident history for UKKK
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