Uytash Airport
Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash" Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ" | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Russian Federation | ||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Makhachkala | ||||||||||
| Location | Makhachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | Moscow Time (+4) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 12 ft / 4 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°49′00.56″N 047°39′08.26″E / 42.8168222°N 47.6522944°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www.mcx.aero | ||||||||||
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Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics) | |||||||||||
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Makhachkala Uytash Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Махачкала Уйташ) (IATA: MCX, ICAO: URML) is a civil airport located near Makhachkala and just south of the city of Kaspiysk which is on the west side of the Caspian Sea. It is named after Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The naming was found controversial by the Crimean Tatars, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.
South East Airlines (formerly Dagestan Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.