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Kursk Vostochny Airport

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Operator
  
16th Air Army

Elevation AMSL
  
686 ft / 209 m

12/30
  
2,500

Code
  
URS

Phone
  
+7 471 234-00-60

Location
  
Kursk

Website
  
aerokursk.ru

2,500
  
8,202

Elevation
  
209 m

Airport type
  
Russian Air Force

Address
  
Kursk, Kurskaya Oblast, Russia, 305545

Owners
  
Ministry of Defence, Russian Air Force

Vostochny Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Восточный) (IATA: URS, ICAO: UUOK) is an interceptor aircraft base in Kursk Oblast, Russia located 7 km east of Kursk. It is a medium-sized base 4 miles northeast of Kursk. Several alert pads, with civilian tarmac on other side of airfield.

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Station history

Khalino was home to:

  • 472 IAP (472nd Interceptor Aviation Regiment) from 4 October 1979 to 1998. Moved in from Orel, Orel Oblast, where it had been stationed from 1950 to 1979. Equipped with MiG-23P or S from 1979. Disbanded 1 May 1998. The 472nd IAP PVO was Military Unit No.61364.

    • It is currently home to:

  • 14 IAP (14th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-29 (SMT/UBT) aircraft, having been relocated from Zherdevka (air base).

    • Books

  • Handbook «Аэропорты и Авиакомпании, Авиапоставщики 2014 (СНГ и Балтия)» -М.:, 2014,-640с. ISBN 978-5-9905032-1-2

    • References

    Kursk Vostochny Airport Wikipedia
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