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Pevek Airport lies on the shore of the East Siberian Sea in Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, some 15 km northeast of the town of Pevek that it serves. It is a remote but capable civilian field, notable as one of the few airports on the trans-polar route able to accept aircraft as large as the Boeing 767, and it offers an ILS approach to its single long hard runway.
Pevek Airport is a civilian aerodrome operated by the Pevek branch of Chukotavia, serving the small Arctic town of Pevek in Chukotka. It is one of the few airports in Russia on the polar route with the runway length and facilities to handle aircraft as large as the Boeing 767, and in an emergency even larger types, which makes it a significant diversion and refuelling point for a simulator pilot flying high-latitude trans-polar routes despite its otherwise sparse scheduled traffic.
The airfield sits on the coast of the East Siberian Sea, about 15 km northeast of Pevek, in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia's far northeast.
Pevek has a single physical runway, 17/35, 8,187 ft long with a hard surface and lighting. Runway 35 is equipped with an ILS.
Approach can be contacted on 124.2 MHz.
The airport has functioned as a civilian field serving Pevek, operated by the Pevek branch of Chukotavia, and its scale reflects a role supporting polar-route air traffic capable of handling wide-body jets such as the Boeing 767. Its history includes two recorded incidents: on 12 March 1963 a Lisunov Li-2 (registered CCCP-16202) crashed immediately after takeoff owing to overloading and was written off, and on 14 August 2014 a Mil Mi-8 helicopter (registered RA-24738) collided with the terminal building with its rotor while taxiing.
Flying operations at Pevek are infrequent, with usually only weekly scheduled service and no flights on most days. Chukotavia operates flights to Anadyr and Keperveyem using Twin Otter, An-24 or helicopter equipment, while Yakutia Airlines serves Moscow-Vnukovo, Nizhnevartovsk and Yakutsk, and S7 Airlines has served Novosibirsk. Flights to Moscow are typically flown with Boeing 757 or 767 aircraft, underlining the runway's capacity for larger jets despite the airport's otherwise minor traffic levels.