Ämari Air Base

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Ämari
A-10's at Ämari Air Base
IATA: none – ICAO: EEEI
Summary
Airport type military
Operator Estonian Air Force, NATO
Serves Keila
Elevation AMSL 66 ft / 20 m
Coordinates 59°15′36″N 024°12′30″E / 59.26000°N 24.20833°E / 59.26000; 24.20833
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 9,022 2,750 Concrete

Ämari Air Base (also given in references as Suurküla (original Estonian name), Vasalemma, Emari, Suurkyul, Shuurkyul, and Shuurkul - last forms of the Estonian names are derivates of names Russian-speaking military personnel used when it was used by the Soviet military.") (ICAO: EEEI) is an air base in Harjumaa, Estonia located 7 km south of Lake Klooga. The length of the runway does not include a 250 m overrun at each end.

In Soviet times, Ämari was home to 321 and/or 170 MShAP (321st and/or 170th Naval Shturmovik Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft.[1]

Ämari Air Base will be a NATO interoperable airfield in the future. Works to this effect are scheduled for completion in 2012. In September 2010, the renewed runway was officially inaugurated.[2]

Estonian Air Force Air Surveillance Wing was created on 1 January 1998 and is located at the Ämari Air Base.

See also

Other big investments are the Jägala army base and Tapa army base projects for Ground Forces units.

References

  1. ↑ "Aviatsiya VMF". Aviabaza KPOI. 
  2. ↑ http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/09/15/20547678.html
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