Global InformationVelyka Krucha Air Base information
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Velikaya Krucha | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Soviet Air Forces | ||||||||||
| Location | Pyriatyn | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 384 ft / 117 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°9′0″N 032°32′0″E / 50.15000°N 32.53333°E | ||||||||||
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Velyka Krucha was an air base near Chernihiv, Ukraine located in Velyka Krucha village, 10 km south of Pyriatyn. It was a training base, and has been largely abandoned.
Units stationed at Velikaya Krucha include the 443rd Aviation Training Regiment (443 UAP) flying 101 L-39 jet trainers during the early 1990s.[1] Through the late 1980s and 1990s the 443rd Regiment was part of the Kharkhov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots, in turn itself part of the 17th Air Army.
- ^ "443rd Training Aviation Regiment". Ww2.dk. Retrieved 2022-09-18.