Uka Airport | |
Nativename: | Ука Аэродром |
Pushpin Map: | Russia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Uka Airport in Russia |
Pushpin Label: | Uka |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Type: | Military |
Location: | Uka, Russia |
Elevation-F: | 10 |
Elevation-M: | 3 |
R1-Number: | 18/36 |
R1-Length-F: | 7218 |
R1-Length-M: | 2200 |
R1-Surface: | Bitumen |
Uka Airport was an airfield in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located 11 km northwest of Uka.[1] In recent decades, it was probably a civilian airfield, but the configuration and runway length suggests that it may have been a military airfield during the 1950s or 1960s. This airfield was used during the Second World War by US airplanes on their way to Siberia for Lend-Lease program.Near the airfield is a very big old antenna built for the Russian space programme in 1950s.