Mukachevo is an air base in
Ukraine
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located 6 km southwest of
Mukachevo. During the
Cold War
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it served as a small interceptor base. The airfield had a loop taxiway with many parking revetments. The air base has since been moved to
Stryi Air Base, leaving the airfield standing abandoned and empty.
The base was home to the
* 92nd Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1951 and 1993.
* 486th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1951 and 1960.
Airfield today
On 27 April 2021
Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
The governor of Zakarpattia Oblast () is the Chief of Local State Administration (Ukraine), head of executive branch for the Zakarpattia Oblast.
The office of governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the president ...
Anatoliy Poloskov,
Zakarpattia Oblast Council chairman Oleksiy Petrov, representatives of the State Agency for Infrastructure Projects and the Mukachevo Territorial Community signed a quadripartite Memorandum of Cooperation on the design and construction of a new airport in
Zakarpattia Oblast
Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпатська область), also referred to as simply Zakarpattia (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпаття; Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Kárpátalja'') or Transcar ...
on the territory of
Mukachevo.
The new airport would replace
Uzhhorod International Airport
Uzhhorod International Airport, (; ) is an international airport located in the city of Uzhhorod, in the western Ukraine, Ukrainian oblast, province of Zakarpattia Oblast, Zakarpattia. The airport is situated in the westernmost part of the city, ...
as Zakarpattia's main air link.
Its proposed advantages over
Uzhhorod
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will be a more centralized location, as well as its location completely within Ukrainian airspace (current flights to and from Uzhhorod have to cross over into
Slovak territory).
[A new airport for Transcarpathia will be built in Mukachevo]
Econominska Pravda (27 April 2021)
See also
*
Mukachevo Radar Station
References
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Soviet military air bases in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Airports in Ukraine
Ukrainian airbases