IKSUEST

Tiksi Airport

Tiksi, Russia · Asia

Asia Asia/Yakutsk

1direct destinations

3airlines

1runway

3,001 mLongest runway

Tiksi Aerodrome (Yakut: ?????? ?????????, Tiksii Aeroporta) (IATA: IKS, ICAO: UEST) is located 1 km (0.6 mi) northeast of Tiksi, Sakha Republic, and was built in the 1950s as a staging base for Soviet Long Range Aviation bombers to reach the United States (as a so-called 'bounce' aerodrome). It is used regularly by Tupolev Tu-95 aircraft in military exercises, including one in 1999, in which bombers practice travelling to the Canadian arctic. Two other nearby airfields known as Tiksi North and Tiksi West have been abandoned for decades, and are probably unusable, according to satellite imagery. The only scheduled service to Tiksi is by an Antonov An-24 turboprop airplane. The base is home to the Aviation Command, 200th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment with the Mil Mi-8 (NATO: Hip) of the 326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.

Location

71.698°N, 128.903°E · 8 m s. n. m. (26 ft)

General data

CountryRussia

CityTiksi

IATA codeIKS

ICAO codeUEST

Coordinates71.698°N, 128.903°E

Elevation8 m s. n. m. (26 ft)

Time zoneAsia/Yakutsk

Runways1

Longest runway3,001 m

OperatorFuerza Aérea de Rusia

Direct destinations1

Official website

Runways · 1

03/21

Length3,001 m9,846 ft

Width59 m194 ft

SurfaceConcrete

Lighted✓

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 2

Tower

124.000LANDING

Approach

128.500KRUG

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Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

Airlines operating here · 3

Other airlines with direct routes

IrAero Polar Airlines Yakutia Airlines

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

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APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Tiksi Airport (IKS). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IKS

MLA

“Tiksi Airport (IKS).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IKS. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_iks,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Tiksi Airport (IKS)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IKS},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/IKS}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-16},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}

Wikipedia

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