Airport Vorkuta (Vorkuta Airport). Official site.

Vorkuta Airport is located on the outskirts of the city and is a small air transport node, providing a small passenger airplane service. In addition, the territory of the Vorkuta airport is also based and aeronautical engineering of the Russian Federation Federal Security Service.

Runway Vorkuta Airport

On the territory of Vorkuta Airport is located one runway with a total length in meters 2200 and 50 meters wide. Use concrete and its components as the runway surface. In view of this kind of runway parameters, Vorkuta airport can receive all types of helicopters and aircraft grade AN-26, IL-114, 40-Yak, Yak-42, Bombardier CRJ 100 / 200, and other lighter planes.

Infrastructure Vorkuta Airport

Vorkuta airport infrastructure is very bad. The territory is a cafe, shop and parking motor vehicles. Nearest hotels and places of temporary residence are only in the city itself.

Get to Vorkuta Airport is by using:

Urban public transport:
- Bus route number 10.
Taxi.

The route network of Vorkuta Airport

Currently Vorkuta Airport operates three Russian airlines, in particular:

From the airport, flying to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Syktyvkar and Cherepovets.

Basic data:

It serves regional flights in the north of the Komi Republic in the city of Vorkuta.
Airport coordinates: latitude 67.49, longitude 63.99.
GMT time zone (winter / summer): + 4 / + 4.
Country Airport location: Russia.
Number of airport terminals: 1.
IATA airport code: VKT.
ICAO airport code: UUYW.
Internal code: VKT.
Based airlines: Komiaviatrans (Komiaviatrans).

Incidents

In December 2009, a helicopter model Mi-171, belonging to the enterprise "Gazpromavia", in the area of the mine "Vorkuta" carried out an emergency emergency landing. As a result of a hard landing for the helicopter received substantial damage, and the two passengers were hospitalized with severe injuries. One of the injured passengers died after some time. The commander of the helicopter Nicholas Witkowski was found guilty of the accident. He ignored the flight security rules and subsequently could not cope with the management of the aircraft. Through a series of wrong actions of the crew of the helicopter was in a vortex ring, which led to a sharp decline followed by a collision with the ground.

Vorkuta Airport on the map:

Contact details:

Email the airport: [email protected]
Airport Fax: +78215130385.
Airport management phone: +78215139470.
Airport information phone: +78215139852.
The mailing address of the airport: Aviation st. 58, Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia, 169901.