Stepanakert Air Base
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Stepanakert Airport Ստեփանակերտի օդանավակայան |
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| Airport type | Military and civilian | ||||||||||
| Operator | Nagorno-Karabakh Republic | ||||||||||
| Location | Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh Republic | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,001 ft / 610 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°54′05″N 46°47′13″E / 39.90139°N 46.78694°ECoordinates: 39°54′05″N 46°47′13″E / 39.90139°N 46.78694°E | ||||||||||
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 Stepanakert
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Source: DAFIF
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Stepanakert Airport (Armenian: Ստեփանակերտի Օդանավակայան), is an airport in Khojaly, near Stepanakert, the capital city of the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) which is an internationally recognized part of Azerbaijan. The airport has been under the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since 1992. Flights ceased to take place with the escalation of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1990. As the airport lies within the internationally recognized borders of Azerbaijan, and the current government is unrecognized, there are no codes for the airport in the official IATA list.
In 2009, the Nagorno-Karabakh authorities began the reconstruction of the facilities. Though originally scheduled to launch the first commercial flights on May 9, 2011, Karabakh officials postponed a new reopening date throughout the whole of 2011. In May 2012, the director of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Civil Aviation Administration, Tigran Gabrielyan, announced that the airport would begin operations in mid-2012. However the airport still remains closed due to political reasons.
The airport is located at an elevation of 2,001 feet (610 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,178 by 37 metres (7,146 ft × 121 ft).
By the end of 1980 the airport served regular passenger flights from Yerevan to Stepanakert. With the escalation of the Karabakh conflict, the constituted authorities of the Azerbaijan SSR blockaded of the Armenian SSR; the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (or NKAO) airport was the only means of communication with the outside world from the Karabakh region. The airport has been under the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since the of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994.
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