Velikaya Krucha | |||
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IATA: none – ICAO: none | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Military | ||
Operator | Soviet Air Forces | ||
Location | Pyriatyn | ||
Elevation AMSL | 384 ft / 117 m | ||
Coordinates | 50°9′0″N 032°32′0″E / 50.15°N 32.533333°ECoordinates: 50°9′0″N 032°32′0″E / 50.15°N 32.533333°E | ||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
ft | m | ||
6,562 | 2,000 | Concrete |
Velyka Krucha was an air base near Chernihiv, Ukraine located in Velyka Krucha village, 10 km south of Pyriatyn. It was a training base, and has been largely abandoned.
Units stationed at Velikaya Krucha include the 443rd Aviation Training Regiment (443 UAP) flying 101 L-39 jet trainers during the early 1990s.[1] Through the late 1980s and 1990s the 443rd Regiment was part of the Kharkhov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, in turn itself part of the 17th Air Army.
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