Totskoye (air base)
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Totskoye (also Totskoe) is an air base in Russia located four kilometres southeast of Totskoye. It is a standard military air base with small number of revetments in separate area. There were 56 stored helicopters and five operational helicopters according to Google Earth high-resolution imagery made in 2003. Google Earth images from 29-08-2012 however shows an abandoned airfield.
The base was home to:
- 281 IIAP (281st Instructor Fighter Aviation Regiment) with 66 MiG-23 aircraft in 1991-94 [1]
- 833 IAP (833rd Fighter Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23 aircraft as of 1992).[2]
Totskoye now hosts:
- 2881 BRV (2881st Reserve Helicopter Base) storing Mi-24 helicopters.[3]
References
- ^ "37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK". Brinkster.com.
- ^ "Russian Aviation Regiments 1941-". David R. Hames.
- ^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.