Chkalovsky Air Base

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Chkalovsky Чкаловский
IATA: CKL ICAO: UUMU
Summary
Airport type	Military
Owner/Operator	Russian Air Force
Serves	Moscow
Elevation AMSL	499 ft / 152 m
Coordinates	55°52′42″N 038°03′42″E / 55.87833°N 38.06167°E / 55.87833; 38.06167
Map
CKL Location relative to Moscow
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12R/30L 3,000 9,842 Concrete
Source: Aviapages.ru[1]

Chkalovsky (IATA: CKL^[2], ICAO: UUMU^[1]) is a military air base near Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located 31 km northeast of Moscow.

Chkalovsky provides air support for Star City, Russia, 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 (since 2009–10, the 6991st Air Base) 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.

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