Cholpon-Ata Airport (Kyrgyz: Чолпон-Ата аэропорту, Russian: Чолпон-Атинский аэропорт) (IATA: none (ЧЛА), ICAO: UAFG) is an airport serving the resort town of Cholpon-Ata in the Issyk Kul Province (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan.
[2] Cholpon-Ata Airport started its operations in the 1930s as a landing strip on the northern shore of Issyk-Kul Lake.
The runway has a weight limit of 22 tonnes, and has no instrument landing facilities and operates only during daylight hours.
One of the main places of interest in Cholpon-Ata (in English) is the open-air petroglyph museum, located just outside the city center.
The museum's 42 hectares are dotted with stone circles, tombs, balbals (tombstones) and a variety of petroglyphs.