Matrosovo | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Location | Leonidovo | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 335 ft / 102 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°24′6″N 142°53′0″E / 49.40167°N 142.88333°E | ||||||||||
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Matrosovo is a former airport, likely air base, on Sakhalin Island, Russia located 14 km north of Leonidovo. It served as a dispersal airfield for military aircraft on Sakhalin Island during the Cold War.
Matrosovo was identified by U.S. photographic reconnaissance satellites around 1962.[1] The Central Intelligence Agency's collection of declassified documents do not show that any aircraft were ever observed at this airfield, and no documents after 1970 reference the airfield.
In 1985 a Tupolev Tu-16 from Khorol crashed at or near this airfield. Matrosovo was not used after the Cold War and has fallen into a state of decay.
- ^ MISSION COVERAGE INDEX MISSION 9047 5-9 NOVEMBER 1962, CREST: CIA-RDP78B04560A000900010017-1, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.