Mukachevo (air base)
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Municipality of Mukachevo | ||||||||||
| Location | Mukachevo, Ukraine | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 390 ft / 119 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°24′0″N 022°41′0″E / 48.40000°N 22.68333°E | ||||||||||
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Mukachevo is an air base in Ukraine located 6 km southwest of Mukachevo. During the Cold War it served as a small interceptor base. The airfield had a loop taxiway with many parking revetments. The air base has since been moved to Stryi Air Base, leaving the airfield standing abandoned and empty.
The base was home to the
- 92nd Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1951 and 1993.[1]
- 486th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1951 and 1960.[2]
Airfield today
[edit]On 27 April 2021 Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast Anatoliy Poloskov, Zakarpattia Oblast Council chairman Oleksiy Petrov, representatives of the State Agency for Infrastructure Projects and the Mukachevo Territorial Community signed a quadripartite Memorandum of Cooperation on the design and construction of a new airport in Zakarpattia Oblast on the territory of Mukachevo.[3] The new airport would replace Uzhhorod International Airport as Zakarpattia's main air link.[3] Its proposed advantages over Uzhhorod will be a more centralized location, as well as its location completely within Ukrainian airspace (current flights to and from Uzhhorod have to cross over into Slovak territory).[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "92nd Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "486th orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) A new airport for Transcarpathia will be built in Mukachevo, Econominska Pravda (27 April 2021)