RU-5672 Ivanovo North Air Base VFR

  • Name
    Ivanovo North Air Base
  • ICAO
    RU-5672
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    10:25 am (MSK)
  • Municipality
    Ivanovo
  • Coordinates
    57° 3′ 29″ N 40° 58′ 54″ E
  • Elevation
    449 ft (137 m MSL)

About Ivanovo North Air Base

Ivanovo Severny (also Ivanovo North or Zhukovka) is an air base in Russia located 6 km north of Ivanovo. It is a large transport operation airfield with hangars and significant tarmac space. The runway was built in 1935 and upgraded in 1965. The airfield received the Soviet Union's first Ilyushin Il-76 delivery on June 3, 1974.

The base is home to the 144th Airborne Early Warning Aviation Regiment of the 12th Military Transport Aviation Division and the VTA training/development centre, the 610th Center for Combat Use and Retraining of Military Transport Aviation Flight Personnel (610th CBP i PLS) which uses the A-50 and A-50U airborne early warning and control aircraft.

US intelligence summaries from 1957 showed 25 Tupolev Tu-4 (ASCC "Bull") bomber aircraft (Long Range Aviation) and 17 Lisunov Li-2 (ASCC "Cab") aircraft operated at Ivanovo Severny. The 27th Bomber Aviation Regiment was based here until the 1950s.

On the night of July 6, 1957, during landing, a Tu-4 bomber (commanded by A.I. Shcheglov) crashed into the forest near Strokino station and exploded. All 10 crew members were killed.

The 229th Military Transport Aviation Regiment arrived from Moscow-Lyubertsy in 1958, and was stationed here until May 1971, when it was absorbed by the 8th Military Transport Aviation Regiment.

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