Petrozavodsk Airport

Petrozavodsk Airport Petroskoin Lendoazema Аэропорт Петрозаводск
IATA: PES – ICAO: ULPB
Summary
Airport type	Civil/military
Operator	Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Karelia
Serves	Petrozavodsk
Location	Besovets, Russia
Elevation AMSL	151 ft / 46 m
Coordinates	61°53′6″N 034°9′24″E / 61.88500°N 34.15667°E / 61.88500; 34.15667
Website	airport-petrozavodsk.ru
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 02/20 2,500 8,202 Concrete

Petrozavodsk Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Петрозаводск, Karelian: Petroskoin lendoazema; (IATA: PES, ICAO: ULPB); ex: Besovets, Petrozavodsk-2) is a joint civil-military airport in Russia located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets, Shuya Rural Settlement (municipality). It services small airliners. It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space.

The airfield has seen military use as an interceptor base. During the 1960s or 1970s Sukhoi Su-15 aircraft were based at Besovets. During the 1970s it was home to the 991st Fighter Aviation Regiment (991 IAP), which flew Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft. In 1992-93, the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment (159 IAP) transferred in from Poland, having left the 4th Air Army.^[1] It flies the Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft and is now part of the 54th Air Defence Corps, 6th Air Army.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Accidents and incidents

On 20 June 2011, a RusAir Tupolev TU-134, Flight 9605, operating for RusLine, with 43 passengers and nine crew crash landed, broke up, and caught fire on a highway short of the runway at Petrozavodsk Airport while en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people and leaving five survivors.^[3]

References

1. ↑ Hans Nijhuis and Robert Senkowski, 'Farewell Poland!,' Air International, January 1993
2. ↑ "Авиакомпания «РусЛайн» открывает полёты из Петрозаводска в Санкт-Петербург". Retrieved 28 December 2015. 
3. ↑ "Crash: Rusair T134 at Petrozavodsk on Jun 20th 2011, impacted road short of runway". The Aviation Herald. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 

External links

• Airport information for ULPB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
• Airport information for ULPB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
• Accident history for PES at Aviation Safety Network

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