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Migalovo (air base)

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Airport type
  
Military

Location
  
Tver

07/25
  
8,202

Elevation
  
137 m

Owner
  
Ministry of Defence

Operator
  
Russian Air Force

Elevation AMSL
  
469 ft / 143 m

8,202
  
2,500

Code
  
KLD

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Migalovo (also given as Tver Migalovo, Kalinin) (IATA: KLD, ICAO: UUEM) is an air base in Tver Oblast, Russia located 10 km west of Tver. It is a large military airlift base. It currently houses all of Russia's remaining Antonov An-22 fleet. It is an Ilyushin Il-76 base, with some Antonov An-12 aircraft stored.

Some of the units that made Migalovo home were:

  • Headquarters 12th Military Transport Aviation Division (from 1946, under the title 12th Transport Aviation Division)
  • 8 VTAP (8th Military Transport Aviation Regiment) flying An-12 and An-22.
  • 196 VTAP (196th Military Transport Aviation Regiment) flying Il-76.
  • 224 LO VTA (224th Transport Aviation ~Detachment~) flying Il-76 and An-124.
  • 2 TSNII (2nd Central Scientific Research and Test Institute of the Ministry of Defense).
  • 274th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (274 APIB) flying Su-17C. Arrived from Kubinka in December 1974. Disbanded 1993. Under 9th Fighter Aviation Division.

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