Cape Schmidt Airport is located 3 km to the southeast of the village of Cape Schmidt , Iultinsky District (formerly Schmidtovsky District until 2008), and the Autonomous Okrug of Chukotka .
Cape Schmidt Airport | |||||||
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IATA : none (internal code MSHD) - ICAO : UHMI (UHMI) | |||||||
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Type of | civil | ||||||
A country | Russia | ||||||
Location | Chukotka | ||||||
Operator | FKP "Airports of Chukotka" | ||||||
NUM height | +6 m | ||||||
Timezone | UTC + 12 / + 12 | ||||||
Working hours | 21: 00— 0054: 00 | ||||||
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History
The former military airfield , military unit 45177, runway with artificial turf was built in 1954 [1] . In the Soviet period, it was used as a jump airfield for strategic aviation as part of the Operational Group in the Arctic of the USSR Air Force. Runway length 2500 m, width 60 meters, reinforced concrete coating. It was planned to increase the length of the runway to 3000 m, a gravel surface was made, but with the departure of the military, everything became dilapidated.
Air communication with Pevek, Anadyr and Egvekinot is carried out with the help of helicopters.
In 2014, plans were announced to restore the military infrastructure of the Cape Schmidt airfield [2] . In October 2014, at Cape Schmidt, they took up training and combat duty to protect the air borders of the Russian Federation units of the Eastern Military District. In November of the same year, a modular residential unit for military personnel was commissioned [3] .
The military camp and the infrastructure being restored will be used by the United Strategic Command North , established on December 1, 2014 [4] [5] .
By 2018, the reconstruction of the runway is planned, its length will be increased to 3000 m [6] .
Route Network
Until the early 1990s. regular flights were carried out: the An-24 boards on the route Schmidt — Pevek — Keperway — Seymchan — Magadan, as well as a shortened version to Pevek (at various times Il-14, An-24, An-28); An-24 to Anadyr; An-2 to the villages of Polar and Leningrad; Mi-8 to the village Ushakovskoe . At various times, the IL-18 and Yak-40 were carrying direct flights to Moscow with intermediate landings.
Airline | Destinations |
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Chukotavia | Anadyr, Pevek, Egvekinot [7] |
Accidents
- On July 6, 1989, 4 minutes after taking off from the Cape Schmidt airfield, the engines of the ice reconnaissance aircraft IL-14 failed; due to the forced landing on the water surface of the lagoon, the plane was seriously damaged. The crew members got off with light injuries.
- On February 1, 1995, during an approach due to a piloting error, a rough landing of the An-28 aircraft occurred 15 meters from the runway end. After hitting the plane separated from the ground and again landed at a distance of 20 meters from the start of the runway. The plane stopped at a distance of 225 meters from the end of the runway. As a result, the aircraft received serious damage. There were no dead [8] .
See also
- List of military airfields of Russia
Notes
- ↑ Post on Arctic Bases . Avia.ru. The appeal date is November 13, 2008. Archived March 21, 2012.
- ↑ Restoration of airfields in the Arctic . ITAR-TASS (August 11, 2014). The appeal date is August 14, 2014.
- ↑ History of the base on the island of Schmidt // Newspaper "Kommersant". - 2015-06-11. - Vol. 204 . - p . 6 .
- ↑ Spetsstroy of Russia: about 1.5 thousand workers build military facilities in six points of the Arctic
- ↑ Russian military settled a second town in the Arctic - at Cape Schmidt
- ↑ The Arctic shield is fixed by Chukotka . Extreme North (October 22, 2015).
- ↑ Oleg MAZIN On Cape Schmidt - by helicopters - Extreme North , March 01, 2012
- Aviation accidents, incidents and plane crashes in the USSR and Russia