Mukachevo (air base)

Mukachevo
Summary
Airport typeMilitary
OwnerMunicipality of Mukachevo
LocationMukachevo, Ukraine
Elevation AMSL390 ft / 119 m
Coordinates48°24′0″N 022°41′0″E / 48.40000°N 22.68333°E / 48.40000; 22.68333
Map
UKLM is located in Zakarpattia Oblast
UKLM
UKLM
Location in Zakarpattia Oblast
UKLM is located in Ukraine
UKLM
UKLM
Location in Ukraine
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
8,202 2,500 Concrete

Mukachevo is an air base in Ukraine located 6 km southwest of Mukachevo. During the Cold War it served as a small interceptor base. The airfield had a loop taxiway with many parking revetments. The air base has since been moved to Stryi Air Base, leaving the airfield standing abandoned and empty.

The base was home to the

  • 92nd Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1951 and 1993.[1]
  • 486th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1951 and 1960.[2]
  1. ^ "92nd Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  2. ^ "486th orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 5 January 2023.

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