Remote Kazakhstan airfield serving the Baikonur Cosmodrome region.
Location
Töretam, Kazakhstan
Yubileyniy Airfield, designated ICAO code UAON, is a military and technical airfield located near Töretam in southern Kazakhstan, in close proximity to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The facility is associated with Soviet and Russian space program logistics, having been used to transport large aerospace components and equipment to the cosmodrome.
The airfield is not a commercial passenger airport and has no scheduled civilian airline services. It was developed to support the space and defense infrastructure of the Baikonur complex, which has historically been leased by Russia from Kazakhstan. Its runways were designed to accommodate heavy transport aircraft capable of carrying oversized cargo related to space launch operations.
Notable facts
- ›Located near the Baikonur Cosmodrome, one of the world's most historically significant space launch sites.
- ›Used primarily for military and space program logistics rather than commercial aviation.
- ›Designed to handle heavy transport aircraft carrying large aerospace cargo.
- ›The Baikonur area is leased by Russia from Kazakhstan for space operations.
- ›Not open to general public or scheduled passenger traffic.
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