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Jalal-Abad Airport (UAJA) serves the city of Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan's Fergana Valley, at an elevation of 2,562 feet. It is a modest regional field with a single paved runway, historically linking the town to other parts of Kyrgyzstan and, before the Soviet collapse, to neighbouring republics.
Jalal-Abad Airport lies on the edge of Jalal-Abad, the capital of Jalal-Abad Region in southern Kyrgyzstan, close to the border with Uzbekistan in the Fergana Valley. It is operated as a domestic regional airport under the Manas International Airport company and has historically handled only flights within Kyrgyzstan, with no customs or border facilities. For a simulator pilot, its interest lies in the mountainous Central Asian setting, the long history of the strip dating back to the 1930s, and its role as a small provincial gateway rather than a major hub.
The airport sits at the western end of the Fergana Valley in Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan, near the Uzbek border. It is a domestic-only field, historically without customs or border control, and serves the town of Jalal-Abad directly. No specific controlled airspace class or neighbouring controlled aerodromes are detailed in available sources.
The airport has a single physical runway, 01/19, measuring 5,793 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS.
No specific radio frequencies, callsigns or navaids are given in available sources. The field has historically operated without instrument landing facilities and is restricted to daylight operations.
No published circuit or joining procedures are available in the sources reviewed.
No specific visual reporting points are documented in available sources, though the airport is readily identified from the air by its position on the edge of the town of Jalal-Abad within the Fergana Valley.
The airfield began life in 1938 as a simple landing strip on the outskirts of what was then a small provincial town. It was upgraded to a full aerodrome in 1947 and resumed operations after the Second World War. The current runway and terminal date from 1972, with the runway surface improved in 2013. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union the airport connected Jalal-Abad with cities in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, and it later maintained domestic links to Kerben, Kanysh-Kyya, Toktogul, Naryn, Talas, Cholpon-Ata, Karakol, Batken and Osh, several of which had lapsed by 2000. Flights to Aksy District resumed in March 2013 and to Toguz-Toro District in April 2013 on an ad hoc basis, while seasonal services to Tamchy have operated in summer months. The airport has recorded at least two notable accidents: a rough landing by an Aeroflot Yakovlev Yak-40 in September 1989 that wrote off the aircraft, and a runway overrun by a Kyrgyzstan Airlines Yak-40 in April 1998, also resulting in the aircraft being damaged beyond repair.
The airport continues to operate as a domestic regional field, with a terminal rebuilt in 2018 after the original 1972 building was demolished the previous year. It has historically had a 22-tonne weight limit on its runway, no instrument landing facilities, and operates only during daylight hours. Airlines such as TezJet and Asman Airlines have served the field with domestic flights to Bishkek. A new international airport for Jalal-Abad was announced in 2025, intended as an entirely new facility rather than a redevelopment of the existing site. No simulator scenery is mentioned in available sources, and no PPR requirement is documented.