Levashovo_(air_base)
Levashovo (also Levashevo) is an air base located to the southwest of Levashovo, within the northern limits of the federal subject of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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The base is home to the 33rd Independent Composite Aviation Regiment.[1]
It houses mostly small transport planes mostly belonging to 549 AB (549th Air Base), most notably the Antonov An-12, Antonov An-26, and Tupolev Tu-134, along with Mi-6 and Mi-8 helicopters.
The 549th Air Base has seen many redesignations since being activated in 1942 as the 6th independent Transport Aviation Unit.[2]
- 20.8.46 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
- 11.3.48 renamed 247th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron.
- 20.10.81 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
- 5.6.96 renamed 202nd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron.
- 27.4.98 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
- 2004 renamed 87th Aviation Base, and later 549th Aviation Base.
The unit has been based at Levashevo since 1960. Aircraft in service have included the Mi-1, Mi-2, Mi-4, Mi-6 (Mi-6VPK and Mi-22 in the 1980s), Mi-8, Li-2, Il-14, An-2, An-14, An-12, An-24/26, Tu-124, Tu-134, 1981-, and the Ilyushin Il-22 from 1981. In 2000, according to the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty data exchange, the unit had 37 Mi-8 and some An-12. In 2009, the unit had two Tu-134s, 6 An-26, 5 An-12 and 5 Mi-8.
The unit has been part of:
- 13th Air Army, 1942–1949
- 76th Air Army, 1949–1980
- VVS Leningrad Military District, 1980–1988
- 76th Air Army, 1988–1998
- 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army VVS and PVO, 1998–present
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