Tiksi North | |
Icao: | ZC8L |
Type: | Military |
Operator: | Russian Air Force |
Location: | Tiksi |
Elevation-F: | 66 |
Elevation-M: | 20 |
R1-Number: | 17/35 |
R1-Length-F: | 11483 |
R1-Length-M: | 3500 |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Sakha Republic#Russia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Sakha Republic |
Pushpin Label: | Tiksi North |
Tiksi North is a former Russian military airfield located 41 km north of Tiksi in Bulunsky District, Sakha Republic.[1] Described as a ghost airfield, its probable use was either as a diversion or dispersal airfield for Soviet bombers. It was likely abandoned sometime in the early 1960s.
Other abandoned arctic staging bases: