Airport type Joint Elevation AMSL 640 ft / 195 m Code BQS | Serves Blagoveshchensk Elevation 195 m | |
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Operator Amur Oblast State Unitary Enterprise "Airport Blagoveshchensk" Location Blagoveshchensk, Russia Address Unnamed Rd,, Amur Oblast, Russia, 675019 | ||
Ignatyevo Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Игнатьево) (IATA: BQS, ICAO: UHBB) is a large airport in Russia located 20 km northwest of Blagoveshchensk. It services up to medium-sized airliners and conducts 24-hour flight operations. The civilian area parks 44 aircraft, with a military pad on the northwest side of the airfield, possibly for forward deployment purposes.
Accidents
On 8 August 2011, IrAero Flight 103, operated by Antonov An-24 RA-46561 overran the runway on landing. Of the five crew and 31 passengers on board, twelve people were injured.
References
Ignatyevo Airport Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA