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Turkmenistan - Airfields

Town	Unit	Aircraft	ICAO	Lat	Lon	altitude	Rwy length
Ashgabat Ak-Tepe (Ashkhabad)	47 OSAE	An-26/24, MI-24, MI-8	UTAA	N 37 59	E 58 21	689	12,400 ft
	107 IAP	Mig-23m, Mig-25PD, Su-25
Dushanbe			UTDD	N 38 33	E 68 49	2582	10170
Khudzhand			UTDL	N 40 13	E 69 42	1450	8596
Mary	99 AB (67-SUP)	MiG-29, Su-25	UTAM	37.6192	61.8967
Samarkand			UTSS	N 39 42	E 66 59	2224	10171
Tashkent Yuzhny			UTTT	N 41 15	E 69 17	1414	13123
Termez			UTST	N 37 17	E 67 19	1027	9843
Turkmenabad (Turkmenabat)	31 CAE	MiG-21, Su-7, L-39, Yak-28, An-12	UTAV	39.0879	63.6086
Turkmenbashi (Turkmenabat)			UTAK	N 40 04	E 52 53	279	8202

Turkmenistan had seven airports in the 1990s, of which four have permanent-surface runways between 1,200 and 2,500 meters in length. The main international airport in Ashgabat includes a new terminal complex constructed by companies from Turkey, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. In the mid-1990s plans called for using Boeing aircraft alongside the current stock of Aeroflot aircraft belonging to Turkmenistan Air Lines. At that time routes provided service to China, India, Pakistan, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Slovakia, and Italy. The two other international facilities, located at Chärjew and Dashhowuz, served mostly flights within Central Asia. Local airports also exist at Mary, Nebitdag, and other locales. The national administration of Turkmenistan Civil Aviation had been admitted as a member of the International Commercial Aviation Organization. Membership enabled Turkmenistan Airlines to have its routes entered into all major airline computer terminals and scheduling references and thus to issue international airline tickets.

In 2006 Turkmenistan had an estimated 29 airports, of which 22 had paved runways and one (at Ashgabat) had a runway longer than 3,000 meters. One heliport was in operation. In the mid-1990s, the Ashgabat airport was enlarged and modernized. Smaller international airports were located at Dashhowuz and Turkmenabat. Air travel within Turkmenistan on the national carrier, Turkmenistan Airlines, often was unreliable. Flights are available from Ashgabat to Armenia, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Moldova, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.