Andreapol (air base)
Andreapol | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: none – ICAO: none | |||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||||||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||||||
| Serves | Andreapol | ||||||||||
| Built | Unknown | ||||||||||
| In use | Unknown-Present | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 751 ft / 229 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 56°38′36″N 032°18′48″E / 56.64333°N 32.31333°ECoordinates: 56°38′36″N 032°18′48″E / 56.64333°N 32.31333°E | ||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||
  Andreapol Location in Tver Oblast, Russia | |||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Andreapol is an air base in Tver Oblast, Russia located 3 km east of Andreapol. It was built as an interceptor aircraft base. It was home to the 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (28 Gv IAP), which flew MiG-23P aircraft in the early 1990s [1] and soon acquired MiG-29 aircraft.[2]
In 1994 to Andreapol were transferred part of the personnel and aircraft 773rd Guards Fighter Regiment, who joined the 28th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. In 2003, during runway repairs at Kubinka the aerobatic teams Russian Knights and Swifts were relocated to Andreapol.
A MiG-29 crashed on May 12, 2005 near the air base.
The 28th Regiment disbanded probably in 2009.
References
- ↑ "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI.
- ↑ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, January 07, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.