Bolshoye Savino Airport

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Bolshoye Savino Airport Аэропорт Большое Савино

IATA: PEE - ICAO: USPP
Summary
Airport type		military/public
Operator		FSUE "Perm Airlines"
Serves		Perm
Elevation AMSL		404 ft (123 m)
Coordinates		57°55′0″N, 056°1′36″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
03/21	10,518	3,206	Asphalt

Bolshoye Savino Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Большое Савино) (IATA: PEE, ICAO: USPP) is an airfield in Perm Krai, Russia located 16 km southwest of Perm. It is a joint civil-military airfield with a small number of fighter and bomber pads. It is operated by 764 IAP (764th Interceptor Aviation Regiment), the only regiment of combat aviation in the 5th Army of VVS and PVO's area (and successor of the 4th Army of PVO in the USSR). However, according to Air Forces Monthly, July 2007, the 764th Regiment reports directly to Russian Air Force headquarters.

Construction of Bolshoye Savino took place in 1952 under the personal control of Marshal Zhukov, who was exiled by Stalin after World War II into the Urals to take command of the Ural Military District. On May 1, 1960 the pilots of 764 IAP Boris Ajvazyan and Sergey Safronov were involved in the interception of the United States U-2 spy aircraft; unfortunately Safronov, piloting a MiG-19, was shot down by friendly fire and died ^[1].

The year 1965 marked a major change in the airfield's operation. Bolshoye Savino became a joint civil airport, servicing medium-sized airliners, now with 39 parking spots near terminal and cargo area.

During the Cold War the airfield operated up to 38 MiG-25 interceptors, with a number of Yak-25, and Yak-28 aircraft and received modern MiG-31s in 1991 ^[2]. The runway was lengthened from 2500 to 3200 m around 2002.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aeroflot-Nord (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Orenburg Airlines (Orenburg)
S7 Airlines (Adler/Sochi, Anapa, Dushanbe, Irkutsk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Yerevan)
Sky Express (Moscow-Vnukovo)
UTair Aviation (Syktyvkar)