Iturup International Airport

From Dominion of British Columbia
Iturup International Airport
IATA code XIT
ICAO code BCIT
MTC Location ID -
Address 4300 Queen Elizabeth Boulevard
Shana, Iturup
Utari Mosir UM1 4DA
Hub for Utari Air (main)

Iturup International Airport is an airport in Shana on Iturup, Utari Mosir, British Columbia.

Accidents and incidents

  • 15 August 1991 Utari Air DHBC-3B Sandpiper VB-SAB (c/n C370/1955), operating as Flight UW19 from Iturup to Urup, crashed shortly after takeoff. Iturup ATC instructed the flight crew to make a left turn after takeoff from Iturup airport. Instead, a right turn was made; the aircraft flew towards mountaineous terrain and struck Mount Hokuyuk thirty feet below the summit. Both crew and the nine passengers aboard were killed.

Airlines and destinations

In addition to the passenger services listed below, Utari Air operate a scheduled cargo service between Iturup and Kupol, Russia, with a DHBC=5F Swan freighter.

Passenger

Airline Service area Destination Aircraft
Air BC Domestic Vancouver B767-200ER
Angara Airlines International Irkutsk
Aurora International Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk DHC-8-400
Hawkair Domestic Ganiks Laxha B717-200HGW
Inter-Dominion Air Lines Domestic Blaenau A330-200
Victoria A330-200
International Hong Kong A330-200
Japan Air System International Sapporo A318
Kamchatka Aviation International Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Kehloke 1
Northern Thunderbird Air Domestic Gitlaxt’aamiks B717-200HGW
Primoravia International Khabarovsk
Royal Hawaiian Airlines Continental Kahului seasonal MD-11
Siberia Airlines International Novosibirsk B737-800
Utari Air Domestic Furukamap Su-80, Twin Otter
Shikotan Twin Otter
Urup Twin Otter
Vancouver Skookum Trident, Yak-242-300
Continental Saipan seasonal Trident, Yak-242-300
Unalaska Skookum Trident, YS-11
International Asahikawa Su-80, Twin Otter
Orlan Twin Otter
Rasŏn Yak-42
Rishiri Twin Otter
Sendai Yak-42
Tokyo–Narita Skookum Trident, Yak-242-300
Vladivostok Yak-42, YS-11
Wien Air Alaska Continental Anchorage B757-200
Yakutia Airlines International J̌okuuskay Superjet 95