Buturlinovka (air base)
| Buturlinovka | |||||||||||
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| IATA: none – ICAO: none | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||||||
| Location | Buturlinovka | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 505 ft / 154 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°47′0″N 040°37′0″E / 50.78333°N 40.61667°ECoordinates: 50°47′0″N 040°37′0″E / 50.78333°N 40.61667°E | ||||||||||
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Buturlinovka is an air base in Russia located 4 km south of the town of Buturlinovka. There are two small alert pads at either end of runway for 10 fighters. Google Earth images from 08-05-2011 still shows more than a dozen fighter aircraft.
Units stationed at Buturlinovka include 186 ISHAP (186th Instructional Shturmovik Aviation Regiment) flying 45 Su-25 jet aircraft during the early 1990s.[1][2] More recently it was home to the 899 'Orsha' Guards ShAP of the 16th Air Army, flying Su-25s,[3] but that unit disbanded on 1 December 2009, after which the airbase was left vacant.
During 2011 the MiG-29s from Kursk were temporarily based here for a period of circa one year, due to runway repairs at Kursk.[4]
References
- ↑ "37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK". Brinkster.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-16.
- ↑ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.
- ↑ Butowski, International Air Power Review, Vol 13, 2004
- ↑ Аэродром Бутурлиновка [Buturlinovka Air Base] (in Russian). 7 February 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
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