Uka Airport
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Uka Airport Ука Аэродром | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
Location | Uka, Russia | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 10 ft / 3 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 57°55′42″N 162°1′18″E / 57.92833°N 162.02167°E | ||||||||||
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Uka Airport was an airfield in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located 11 km northwest of Uka. In recent decades, it was probably a civilian airfield, but the configuration and runway length suggests that it may have been a military airfield during the 1950s or 1960s. This airfield was used during the Second World War by US airplanes on their way to Siberia for Lend-Lease program.
Near the airfield is a very big old antenna built for the Russian space programme in 1950s.
Satellite imagery (Google Earth) from 2016-09-22 shows substantial vegetation overgrowth on the runway, suggesting the airport has not been operated in several years prior.