Kerki Airport
Kerki Airport is an airport in the town of Kerki, Lebap Region in eastern Turkmenistan. It lies at an altitude of 237 metres (770 feet). The DAFIF assigned the pseudo-ICAO code "UT51" to this airport, and that code often appears in online airport directories, but it is not an actual ICAO airport code.
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kerki | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 770 ft / 235 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°48′32″N 065°12′45″E | ||||||||||
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Source:World Aero Data[1] | |||||||||||
New building
The construction of the new airport of Kerki will begin in May 2019.[2] Construction entrusted to the enterprise Gundogdy.
According to the project, a passenger terminal with a capacity of 100 passengers per hour is planned to be built on an area of more than 200 hectares. Builders will create in it optimally comfortable conditions for waiting, quick check-in and boarding of passengers. At their service are a waiting room for 120 people, ticket offices, a medical center, a luggage room, a post office, an international communications center, a cafeteria, a CIP room, a mother-and-child room, a dining room for 30 people. In the structure of the airfield complex there will be repair and technical, fueling services, warehouses, a fire station, and cargo service departments.
The runway at Kerki's airport, with a length of 2,700 meters and a width of 60 meters, will be equipped with ground-based flight support equipment for the first category of ICAO - light-signaling, meteorological, aeronautical and radio equipment from the French company Thales, which will allow to receive and send aircraft around the clock.
Commissioning of the new civil aviation facility is scheduled for April 2021.
References
- Airport information for UT51 at World Aero Data