Magadan-13 Airport Explained

Magadan-13 Airport
Nativename-A:Аэропорт Магадан-13
Icao:UHMT
Type:Public
Location:Magadan
Elevation-F:164
Elevation-M:50
Pushpin Map:Russia Magadan Oblast
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Magadan Oblast
R1-Number:01/19
R1-Length-F:4,757
R1-Length-M:1,450
R1-Surface:Concrete

Magadan-13 Airport is a small airport in Russia located 10 km northeast of Magadan. It handles most propeller-driven transports. Regular passenger Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft were flying here in the 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s it was a busy airport for charter operations (Antonov An-2, Mi-4, Mi-8, etc.) which served geological expeditions, firefighters, and local transport routes.This is probably a former PVO-Strany fighter field, based on the length of the now-unusable runway between the current active runway and the ramp area.

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