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Name
Magan Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
UEMM / GYG / UEMM
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- Region
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Timezone
12:36 am (YAKT)
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Municipality
Magan
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Coordinates
62° 6′ 12″ N 129° 32′ 43″ E
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Elevation
577 ft (176 m MSL)
About Magan Airport
Magan Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Маган; Yakut: Маҕан аэропорда, Mağan aeroporda) (IATA: GYG, ICAO: UEMM) serves the village of Magan, a few kilometers west of Yakutsk, in Russia.
Until the early 1980s, Yakutsk/Magan was monitored as one of nine Arctic staging bases capable of handling the Tupolev Tu-22M (Backfire) bomber.
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