Uytash Airport

Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash"

Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ"
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerRussian Federation
OperatorCivil Government
ServesMakhachkala
LocationMakhachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russia
Time zoneMoscow Time (+4)
Elevation AMSL12 ft / 4 m
Coordinates42°49′00.56″N 047°39′08.26″E / 42.8168222°N 47.6522944°E / 42.8168222; 47.6522944
Websitewww.mcx.aero
Map
МСХ is located in Republic of Dagestan
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Location of the airport in Dagestan
МСХ is located in European Russia
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Location of the airport in Russia
МСХ is located in Europe
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Location of the airport in Europe
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/32 2,640 8,662 Concrete
Statistics (2018)
Passengers1,290,000
Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[1]

Makhachkala Uytash Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Махачкала Уйташ) (IATA: MCX, ICAO: URML) is a civil airport located near Makhachkala and Kaspiysk cities. It is named after Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The naming was found controversial by the Crimean Tatars, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.[2]

South East Airlines (formerly Dagestan Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Объемы перевозок через аэропорты России" [Transportation volumes at Russian airports]. favt.ru (in Russian). Federal Air Transport Agency. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Страницы крымской истории. Памяти Амет-Хана Султана". Крым.Реалии (in Russian). February 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Directory: World airlines." Flight International. 23–29 March 2004. 59.
  4. ^ "Главная." South East Airlines. Retrieved on 24 June 2010. "Россия, Республика Дагестан, г. Махачкала, аэропорт ."