Ignatyevo Airport

Ignatyevo Airport
Аэропорт Игнатьево

IATA: BQS – ICAO: UHBB

Summary

Airport type

Joint

Operator

Amur Oblast State Unitary Enterprise "Airport Blagoveshchensk"

Serves

Blagoveshchensk

Location

Blagoveshchensk, Russia

Elevation AMSL

640 ft / 195 m

Coordinates

50°25′30″N 127°24′48″E / 50.42500°N 127.41333°E

Website

http://www.amurair.ru

Map

BQS

Location of airport in Amur Oblast

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
18/36	2,821	9,256	Asphalt

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.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aurora	Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk^[1]
Angara Airlines	Novosibirsk^[2]
IrAero	Chita, Irkutsk,^[3] Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok
KrasAvia	Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk^[4]
Nordwind Airlines	Seasonal charter: Nha Trang, Phuket
Pegas Fly	Moscow-Sheremetyevo Seasonal charter: Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi
S7 Airlines	Novosibirsk
Ural Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo, Yekaterinburg
VIM Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo
Yakutia Airlines	Khabarovsk, Yakutsk

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,^[5] twelve people were injured.^[6]

References

↑ L, J (13 January 2016). "Aurora Airlines Adds New Routes from Feb 2016". Airline Route. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
↑ "РАСПИСАНИЕ" (PDF). Angara Airlines. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
↑ "Изменения маршрутных сетей за 3–16 апреля". ato.ru. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
↑ ""Красавиа" с 20 января открывает новый рейс из Южно-Сахалинска в Благовещенск". airspot.ru. Интерфакс-Россия. 14 January 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
↑ Hradecky, Simon (8 August 2011). "Accident: IrAero AN24 at Blagoveshchensk on Aug 8th 2011, runway excursion". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
↑ Авиационное происшествие с самолетом Ан-24 в аэропорту г. Благовещенска 08.08.2011 г. (in Russian). Federal Service for Supervision of Transport (Rostransnadzor). 8 August 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2011.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ignatyevo Airport.

(Russian) Blagoveshchensk Airport official website
Airport information for UHBB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
Airport information for UHBB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
Accident history for BQS at Aviation Safety Network
(Russian) Airport Blagoveshchensk Aviateka.Handbook

Airports in Russia

Major (5,000,000+)	Moscow–Domodedovo Moscow–Sheremetyevo Moscow–Vnukovo Saint Petersburg–Pulkovo Simferopol†

Middle (700,000–4,999,999)	Arkhangelsk Belgorod Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo Mineralnye Vody Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk–Tolmachevo Omsk Perm Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Rostov-on-Don Samara Sochi Surgut Tomsk Tyumen–Roschino Ufa Ulan-Ude Vladivostok Volgograd Voronezh Yakutsk Yekaterinburg Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

Small (300,000–699,999)	Abakan Anadyr Anapa Astrakhan Barnaul Blagoveschensk Kemerovo Magadan Makhachkala Mirny Moscow-Zhukovsky Naberezhnye Chelny–Begishevo Nizhnevartovsk Norilsk–Alykel Novy Urengoy Orenburg Salekhard Saratov Syktyvkar

Smaller (0–299,999)	Aldan Baykit Beloyarsky Biysk Bogorodskoye Bratsk Bugulma Cheboksary Chersky Chita Chokurdakh Eisk Elista Gelendzhik Gorno-Altaysk Grozny Igarka Ivanovo Izhevsk Khanty-Mansiysk Kirov Kogalym Kotlas Krasnoyarsk–Cheremshanka Kurgan Kyzyl Magnitogorsk Nadym Nalchik Naryan-Mar Nazran Neryungri–Chulman Noyabrsk Nyagan Orsk Penza Petrozavodsk Pevek Podkamennaya Tunguska Provideniya Pskov Solovki Sovetsky Spichenkovo Stavropol Talakan Tiksi Turukhansk Udachny–Polyarny Ukhta Ulyanovsk–Baratayevka Ulyanovsk–Vostochny Uray Usinsk Ust-Kut Vanavara Vladikavkaz Vorkuta Yaroslavl Tynda Yuzhno-Kurilsk

Unscheduled	Amderma Dikson Magdagachi Moscow–Ostafyevo Okhotsk Smolensk Tilichiki Tura Tyumen–Plekhanovo Sarov Sevastopol†

Defunct	Kazan-2 Maykop Moscow–Bykovo Saint Petersburg–Rzhevka Veliky Novgorod–Yurievo Veliky Novgorod–Krechevitsy

† Located in Crimea, which is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine

Airports built in the Soviet Union

Military

Active	Borisoglebskoye Airfield Burevestnik Dzyomgi Kirovsk-Apatity Klyuchi Air Base Kondinskoye Levashovo Magdagachi Poltava Air Base Pugachev Air Base Rzhev Air Base Samara Kryazh Saratov West Air Base Tatishchevo Air Base Tiksi West Airfield Tilichiki Tushino Airfield Uka Yaroslavl Levtsovo Yevpatoria Yugorsk Sovetsky

Defunct	Baherove Air Base Bakharevka Jonava Lenino Saratov South Air Base Smirnykh Air Base Tiksi Vetrovoye Air Base

Civilian

Active

International

Defunct

International	Donetsk

Joint Use

Active

International	Baikal Manas Odessa Perm Zhukovsky Sevastopol

Defunct

Pskov

Other

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