Vitim Airport Explained

Vitim Airport
Iata:-
Icao:UERT
Type:Public
City-Served:Vitim
Elevation-F:610
Elevation-M:186
Coordinates:59.4578°N 112.5628°W
Footnotes:Source: Our Airports web site[1]

Vitim Airport is a public use airport built in Vitim, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia[1] during World War II for the Alaska-Siberian (ALSIB) air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ourairports.com/airports/UERT/ Vitim Airport Retrieved 2009-12-02
  2. Lebedev, Igor Aviation Lend-Lease to Russia Nova Publishers (1997) pp.44-49