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Kant Air Base
IATA: none – ICAO: UAFW
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Operator Russian Air Force
Location Kant, Kyrgyzstan
Elevation AMSL 2,549 ft / 777 m
Coordinates 42°51′11″N 074°50′47″E / 42.85306°N 74.84639°E / 42.85306; 74.84639
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 2,700 8,859 Concrete
Source: DAFIF

Kant Air Base (Russian: Авиабаза Кант Aviabaza Kant) is a military air base in Ysyk-Ata District of Chuy Oblast in Kyrgyzstan. It is located just south of the city of Kant, some 20 km east of downtown Bishkek.

History

In 1941, a Soviet Air Force base and pilot training school were set up near the city of Kant, based on a school evacuated from Odessa.

During World War II, 1507 Soviet military pilots were trained there and from 1956. The school also trained foreign pilots. Among its graduates were Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, as well as India's Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh and South Yemen Brigadier Pilot Shakeeb Khobani.

In 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, control of the air base was transferred to Kyrgyzstan.

Present-day Russian base


Former presidents Vladimir Putin and Askar Akayev at Kant Air Base
Former presidents Vladimir Putin and Askar Akayev at Kant Air Base

In accordance with a bilateral agreement between Russia and Kyrgyzstan signed on 22 September 2003, the air base hosts Russian Air Force units. The official opening took place on 23 October 2003, making the facility the first new air base Russia opened abroad since 1991. The unit stationed there has been described as Russian Air Force's 5th Air Army's 999th Air Base.



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General Info
Country Kyrgyzstan
ICAO ID UAFW
Time UTC+5(+6DT)
Latitude 42.853236
42° 51' 11.65" N
Longitude 74.846533
074° 50' 47.52" E
Elevation 2549 feet
777 meters
Type Joint (Civil and Military)
Magnetic Variation 005° E (01/06)
Operating Agency MILITARY - CIVIL JOINT USE AIRPORT
Operating Hours 24 HOUR OPERATIONS


Communications
TWR 124.0
BISHKEK APP 124.6


Runways
ID Dimensions Surface PCN ILS
11/29 8859 x 164 feet
2700 x 50 meters
CONCRETE. 027RBXT NO


Navaids
Type ID Name Channel Freq Distance From Field Bearing From Navaid
VOR-DME MNS BISHKEK 081X 113.4 9.9 NM 126.9
NDB PD KANT - 568 3.4 NM 111.7


Supplies/Equipment
Fuel Jet A1, without icing nhibitor.


Remarks
FUEL (NC-TS-1)



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