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Chita-Kadala International Airport (UIAA/HTA) serves Chita, the administrative centre of Zabaykalsky Krai in eastern Russia, with a single long hard-surfaced runway equipped for instrument approaches. It is a scheduled airline hub connecting the region to Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and other Russian and Asian destinations, making it a useful VFR and IFR waypoint for pilots operating in this part of Siberia.
Chita-Kadala International Airport lies at Chita, the administrative centre of Zabaykalsky Krai in Russia's Far East. It is operated as Aeroport Chita (JSC), with ownership linked to Roman Trotsenko through the Novaport and AEON Corporation groups. For a simulator pilot the field is notable as a substantial single-runway international airport handling scheduled jet traffic in a remote part of Siberia, offering a long lit runway with an ILS approach and a busy mix of domestic and international airline movements.
The airport sits at Chita, the regional capital of Zabaykalsky Krai, in a remote area of southeastern Siberia near the border regions with Mongolia and China. No specific airspace classification, FIR designation or neighbouring controlled airspace detail is available from the sources consulted.
Chita-Kadala has a single physical runway, 11/29, 9,140 feet long with a hard surface and runway lighting. An ILS approach is available for runway 29.
Radio services at Chita include an ATIS on 126.4 MHz, a VOLMET broadcast (callsign CHITA VOLMET) on 128.3 MHz, a radar service (callsign CHITA RADAR) on 122 MHz, and the tower (callsign CHITA TWR) on 118.1 MHz. An ILS is provided for runway 29, supporting instrument approaches into the field.
The airport traces its operations back through the Soviet era, with historical imagery showing an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 at the old terminal building. In more recent decades it has developed into a regional hub, recording steadily rising passenger numbers through the 2010s, from around 173,000 passengers in 2010 to over 365,000 by 2017, and handling roughly 455,000 passengers and 2,610 metric tonnes of cargo in 2019. Ownership passed to private aviation holding groups, with the airport now run as Aeroport Chita (JSC) under the Novaport/AEON structure.
Chita-Kadala continues to operate as a busy regional airline gateway, with scheduled services from carriers including Aeroflot-linked network airlines Aurora, Red Wings, Rossiya, S7 Airlines, Ural Airlines and Yakutia Airlines, alongside international links such as Air China to Beijing and Hailar, and seasonal charter operations by Azur Air and IrAero to leisure destinations. Domestic routes connect Chita to major hubs including Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, as well as smaller regional airfields served by local operator Aeroservis. The single runway, supported by an ILS approach, handles this mixed jet and regional traffic year-round.