Khandyga (airport)

In 1942, airdromes began to be built along the Alaska-Siberia highway to drive military aircraft. Since the fall of 1942, at the 4th kilometer from the village of Khandyga, the runway is being dumped, and in the summer of June-July 1943 a swamp, a bog absorbs the embankment. An urgent decision is to build an airfield on the Yakutsk-Magadan road section in Teply Klyuch. They expand, fall asleep, roll away. The airfield was built in three months, by the forces of prisoners 450 people, 200 horses, 50 cars. In 1943, on November 1, in the village of Teply Klyuch, the runway opens, which was one of the components of the Alaska Siberia airway. The airport is located 75 kilometers east of the regional center of the village of Khandyga. Since 1954, the airport switches to civilian services. Intensive construction begins in the 70s, two-story houses, a dining room, and the Aviator club, which opened in 1974, are being built. The airport received up to 70 aircraft per day. In 2003, a new light-signaling system was installed, which allowed receiving aircraft around the clock.

An-12 , An-24 , An-26 , An-38 , An-72 , An-140 , Yak-40 , L-410 and other types of aircraft 3-4 classes, helicopters of all types.