Kropyvnytskyi Airport

Kropyvnytskyi Airport

Аеропорт «Кропивницький»
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerKirovohrad Oblast
Operator
ServesKropyvnytskyi
LocationKropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine
Hub for
Elevation AMSL571 ft / 174 m
Coordinates48°32′33″N 32°17′9″E / 48.54250°N 32.28583°E / 48.54250; 32.28583
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KGO is located in Ukraine Kirovohrad Oblast
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Location of Kropyvnytskyi Airport in Ukraine
KGO is located in Ukraine
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KGO (Ukraine)
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
16/34 4,268 1,301 Asphalt
16/34 5,249 1,600 Grass
Source: skyvector.com[2]
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Kropyvnytskyi Airport (Ukrainian: Аеропорт «Кропивницький») (IATA: KGO, ICAO: UKKG) is an airport in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine. It also serves State Flight Academy of Ukraine[3]

The airport is capable of handling An-2, An-24, An-26, An-28, An-30, An-32, An-72, An-74, An-140, L-410, Saab 340, Yak-40 aircraft. Just one of the two runways is currently operational (the 1300m one).

The airport does not currently have any scheduled flights, the last one being a Kropyvnytskyi-Odesa route operated by Air Urga in August 2016.[4]

On 22 October 2010, the president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has opened international terminal constructed by Air Urga company. The new terminal area is 500 square meters, its capacity is 50 passengers/hour.[5] Construction cost was about US$500,000.[6] The old domestic terminal area is 900 square meters. Both new international and old domestic terminal operator is Air Urga company.

Construction of the new 2,100 meters runway 12/30 now is temporarily suspended.

  1. ^ "УРГА".
  2. ^ "UKKG - Kirovohrad National Airport | SkyVector".
  3. ^ "Kropyvnytskyi airport is the base of State Flight Academy of Ukraine". www.sfau.com. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  4. ^ "У серпні з Кропивницького до Одеси можна полетіти літаком (ФОТО) — Інформаційний портал Кіровоградщини - Гречка - Новини Кропивницький". gre4ka.info (in Ukrainian). 9 August 2016. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  5. ^ "President of Ukraine opened international terminal". elisavetgrad.ho.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  6. ^ "Cost of construction was about 500,000 USD". news.kr.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2017-02-26.