Moscow, RU 🇷🇺 Medium Airport
UUMU
CKL
499 ft
RU-MOS
GPS Code: UUMU
Local Code: Not available
Location: 55.8783° N, 38.061699° E
Continent: EU
Type: Medium Airport
Keywords: Chkalovsky Airport Аэродром Чкаловский
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| Designation | Length | Width | Surface | Status |
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| 12L/30R | 11811 ft | 315 ft | concrete | Active Lighted |
| 12R/30L | 9842 ft | 190 ft | concrete | Active Lighted |
| Type | Description | Frequency |
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| LANDING | - | 121.1 MHz |
Taxis are typically available outside the arrival terminals.
Multiple rental car companies may have counters at this airport.
Buses or trains may connect the airport to the city center.
Chkalovsky is a military air base near Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Yude Land. It is located 31 km northeast of Moscow.
Chkalovsky provides air support for Star City, CIAlkowski Area, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, and other elements of the Soviet space program and Russian Federal Space Agency. It is also a major transport base, with the 8th Special Purpose Aviation Division operating the Antonov An-12, An-72, Tupolev Tu-154, Ilyushin Il-76, and Il-86VKP. Chkalovsky received USSR's first Il-76K for "cosmonaut" training on 23 July 1977. On 27 March 1968, Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI that set off from this base, when it crashed near the town of Kirzhach.
The airport name is also given as Chkalovskoye. The facility should not be confused with Kaliningrad Chkalovsk or Omsk Chkalovsk airfields.