Zyabrovka Pribytki | |||
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IATA: none – ICAO: none | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Military | ||
Operator | unknown | ||
Location | Gomel | ||
Elevation AMSL | 456 ft / 139 m | ||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
ft | m | ||
9,842 | 3,000 | Concrete |
Pribytki (also Zyabrovka) is an air base in Belarus located in Homiel Voblast, 16 km southeast of Gomel. In the early 1960s it was flying Tupolev Tu-16R aircraft. The airfield was renovated in 1963.[1] It received the Tu-22R around 1966, and by 1967 had 24 based there.[1] The reconnaissance aircraft were tasked with operations in the Baltic and northern Europe.[1] From 1973 into the 1980s pilots from Libya and Iraq trained in the Tu-22 here.[1] The Tu-22 units were disbanded in 1994 and the aircraft sent to Engels-2 for disposal.[1]
Pribytki was home to 290 Gv ODRAP (290th Guards Long Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying Tu-16R from the early 1960s to 1994 and the Tu-22RDM from the 1960s to 1994;[2][3] plus a number of Tu-22R aircraft.[2]