Pryluky (air base)

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Priluki
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Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		Ukrainian Air Force
Serves		Pryluky
Elevation AMSL		449 ft (137 m)
Coordinates		50°34′0″N, 032°19′0″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	9842	3000	Concrete

Pryluky (also given as Priluki) is an air base in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine located 6 km west of Pryluky. This airfield was Ukraine's primary Tupolev Tu-160 bomber base (with Uzyn having the nation's Tupolev Tu-95 fleet). There are revetments for 20 large aircraft.

Pryluky accepted USSR's first Tu-160 (Blackjack) in April 1987, building its fleet up to 19 by 1994. Between October 1999 and February 2000 Ukraine turned over 8 Tu-160 bombers to Russia to pay off energy debts; these are now at Russia's Engels-2 air base.

Units stationed at Pryluky include:

• 184 GV TBAP (184th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Tu-16 aircraft beginning in 1955, then acquiring the Tupolev Tu-22M4 in 1984 and the Tu-160 from 1987 until 2000^[1]. It also flew the Tu-134UBL trainer ^[1].

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Dal'nyaya Aviatsiya. Aviabaza KPOI.