Borisovsky Khotilovo

Borisovsky Khotilovo
IATA: noneICAO: none
Summary
Airport type Military
Operator Russian Air Force
Location Bologoye
Elevation AMSL 591 ft / 180 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
08/20 8,202 2,500 Concrete

Borisovsky Khotilovo (also given as Borisovskiy, Borisovsky, and Khatilovo) is an air base in Tver Oblast, Russia located 24 km south of Bologoye. It is a fighter base with 3 groups of fan revetments. On 1 June 2005 a MiG-31 based here crash-landed here; the crew was only injured.

It is home to 790 IAP (790th Figter Order of Kutuzov Aviation Regiment) flying 38 MiG-25 aircraft during the Cold War and MiG-31s through the 1990s [1][2].

References

  1. ^ "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI. http://airbase.ru/squad/russia/avpvo/. 
  2. ^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.