Stupino | |||||||||||
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Location | Stupino, Moscow Oblast, Russia. | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 54°53′18″N 038°9′6″E / 54.88833°N 38.15167°E | ||||||||||
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Location in Moscow Oblast | |||||||||||
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Stupino is a general aviation airport located 5 km east of Stupino, Moscow Oblast, Russia.
It was a military transport base until the late-1990s, home to 436th Independent Transport Aviation Regiment (436 OTAP) under the command of the Moscow Air Defence District, Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) flying Mil Mi-8 helicopters between 1970 and 1998[1] and between 1952 and 1959 the base hosted the 162nd Fighter Aviation Regiment which used both the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fagot) and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (ASCC: Fresco).[2]