Bodaybo Airport guide

Bodaybo Airport (ICAO UIKB) serves the gold-mining town of Bodaybo in the north of Irkutsk Oblast. It was built in 1944 as a land airfield, after a seaplane base had operated on the Vitim river. During the war the airfield supported the Alaska-Siberian air route that delivered Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.

The airport has one unpaved runway, 06/24, measuring 1,657 m by 42 m, at an elevation of 280 m. It accepts An-2, An-24, An-26, L-410 and Cessna 208B aircraft and helicopters of all types, up to a maximum take-off weight of 24 tonnes.

The road to Irkutsk is about 882 km long, and the highway towards Taksimo is in poor condition, so the air link carries most outside traffic. Scheduled flights are domestic, to Irkutsk only, operated by Angara and IrAero. Traffic rose from 46,900 passengers in 2014 to 51,910 in 2017.