Totskoye (air base)

Totskoye (air base)

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operator = Russian Air Force
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location = Totskoye
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Totskoye (also Totskoe) is an air base in Russia located four kilometres southeast of Totskoye. It is a standard military air base with small number of revetments in separate area. There were 56 stored helicopters and five operational helicopters according to recent Google Earth high-resolution imagery.

The base was home to:
* 281 IIAP (281st Instructor Interceptor Aviation Regiment) with 66 MiG-23 aircraft in 1991-94 cite web| title = 37 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK | publisher = Brinkster.com | url = http://www8.brinkster.com/vad777/sssr-89-91/vvs/add.htm ]
* 833 IAP (833rd Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23 aircraft as of 1992) cite web| title = Russian Aviation Regiments 1941- | publisher = David R. Hames | url = http://www.samolet.co.uk/rregs.html ] .

Totskoye now hosts:
* 2881 BRV (2881st Reserve Helicopter Base) storing Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters cite book| title = Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation | last = Butowski | first = Pyotr | publisher = AIRtime Publishing, Inc | date = 2004 ] .

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