Smarhon (air base)
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Smarhonʹ | |||||||
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| Smarhonʹ, Grodno Region in Belarus | |||||||
  Smarhonʹ Shown within Belarus | |||||||
| Coordinates | 54°31′24″N 026°18′24″E / 54.52333°N 26.30667°E | ||||||
| Type | Air Base | ||||||
| Site information | |||||||
| Operator | Soviet Air Forces | ||||||
| Site history | |||||||
| Built | 1956 | ||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||
| Elevation | 170 metres (558 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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Smarhon (also Smorgon and Smorgon Northwest) is a former Soviet Air Forces base in Belarus located 8 km northwest of Smarhonʹ. It was a small airfield with an unpaved revetment complex hidden in the forest to the northwest. The airfield is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.
The base was home to the 405th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1956 and 1960 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fagot).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "405th Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment". Soviet Armed Forces 1945-1991. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
External links
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