Smolensk North Airport (XUBS) (Smolensk)

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Smolensk North Airport ("Смоленск-Северный") - military airbase placed in suburbs of Smolensk. It is a small mixed-use airfield with a remote revetment area with 8 pads and a Yakovlev factory at the southeast side of the airfield. It has 28 based Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft.

On April 10, 2010, while trying to land on this airport, the Polish government plane Tu-154M crashed with President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his wife, former President-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, Poland's top military brass, lawmakers, heads of the Polish National Bank and other central institutions, presidential aides, bishops and priests of various denominations, relatives of those killed in the Katyn massacre, as well as officers of the presidential security detail and crew members. Totally, 88 passengers and 8 crew members died.