Begishevo Airport

Begishevo Airport Begişevo Xalıqara Aeroportı Аэропорт Бегишево
IATA: NBC – ICAO: UWKE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	OAO Begishevo Airport
Serves	Nizhnekamsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Yelabuga
Location	Nizhnekamsk, Russia
Hub for	Tatarstan Airlines
Elevation AMSL	643 ft / 196 m
Coordinates	55°33′48″N 052°5′42″E / 55.56333°N 52.09500°E / 55.56333; 52.09500Coordinates: 55°33′48″N 052°5′42″E / 55.56333°N 52.09500°E / 55.56333; 52.09500
Website	nbc.aero/
Map
NBC Location of airport in Tatarstan
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 04/22 8,166 2,489 Asphalt

Begishevo Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Бегишево, Tatar: "Begişevo" Xalıqara Aeroportı) (IATA: NBC, ICAO: UWKE) is an airport in Tatarstan, Russia located 19 km east of Nizhnekamsk. It services medium-sized airliners up to Tupolev Tu-154 and Ilyushin Il-76. It has a very large apron and a number of hangars and buildings.

History

The construction of Begishevo airport started in 1970 on initiative of Nizhnekamskneftekhim. A first, technical, flight was effected on December 25, 1971 on An-24 airplane. Regular flights within Tatarstan (Kazan, Chistopol, Muslyumovo, Aktanysh, Yelabuga) started in 1972. During next few years Begishevo airport established connections with the main cities of European Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. The airport obtained international status in 1998. In 2008, it became independent from Tatarstan Airlines as OAO Begishevo Airport.^[1] 99.95% of its shares belong to OAO KAMAZ (as of June 30, 2011).^[2]

Airlines and destinations

External links

• Official website

References

Airports in Russia Major (>5mln) Moscow–Domodedovo Moscow–Sheremetyevo Saint Petersburg–Pulkovo Moscow–Vnukovo Middle (0.7~5mln) Arkhangelsk Belgorod Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo Mineralnye Vody Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo Omsk Perm Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Rostov-on-Don Samara Sochi Surgut Tomsk Tyumen–Roschino Ufa Ulan-Ude Vladivostok Volgograd Voronezh Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Small (0.3~0.7mln) Abakan Anadyr Anapa Astrakhan Barnaul Blagoveschensk Kemerovo Magadan Makhachkala Mirny Naberezhnye Chelny–Begishevo Nizhnevartovsk Norilsk–Alykel Novy Urengoy Orenburg Salekhard Saratov Syktyvkar Smaller (<0.3mln) Aldan Baykit Beloyarsky Biysk Bogorodskoye Bratsk Bugulma Cheboksary Chersky Chita Chokurdakh Eisk Elista Gelendzhik Gorno-Altaysk Grozny Igarka Ivanovo Izhevsk Khanty-Mansiysk Kirov Kogalym Kotlas Krasnoyarsk–Cheremshanka Kurgan Kyzyl Magnitogorsk Nadym Nalchik Naryan-Mar Nazran Neryungri–Chulman Noyabrsk Nyagan Orsk Penza Petrozavodsk Pevek Podkamennaya Tunguska Provideniya Pskov Solovki Sovetsky Spichenkovo Stavropol Talakan Tiksi Turukhansk Udachny–Polyarny Ukhta Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka Ulyanovsk–Vostochny Uray Usinsk Ust-Kut Vanavara Vladikavkaz Vorkuta Yaroslavl Yuzhno-Kurilsk Unscheduled Amderma Dikson Magdagachi Moscow–Ostafyevo Okhotsk Ramenskoye Smolensk Tilichiki Tura Tyumen–Plekhanovo Defunct Kazan-2 Maykop Moscow–Bykovo Saint Petersburg–Rzhevka Veliky Novgorod–Yurievo Veliky Novgorod–Krechevitsy