Alexandrovo air base

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Ryazan Aleksandrovo
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		Russian Air Force
Serves		Ryazan
Elevation AMSL		469 ft / 143 m
Coordinates		54°29′36″N 039°55′54″E / 54.49333, 39.93167
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	6562	2000	Concrete

Ryazan Alexandrovo (also given as Aleksandrovo and Protasovo) is an air base in Ryazan Oblast, Russia located 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Ryazan. It was probably an attack aircraft base during the Cold War. During the 1990s, it housed Mi-8 and Mi-24 aircraft of the Russian Air Force. However, Google Earth high-resolution images accessed in 2006 show the airfield is vacated; no aircraft are seen.

Russian websites show the base is now home to the 86th Reserve Helicopter Base of the 16th Air Army under the Special Purpose Command of the Russian Air Force. 72 Mi-24s and 66 Mi-8s, plus 140 personnel, reportly comprise the base.

[edit] Source

• http://www8.brinkster.com/vad777/russia/air/va/16va_mvo.htm - accessed January 2007