Smarhon (air base)
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Smarhon (also Smorgon and Smorgon Northwest) is a former Soviet Air Forces base in Belarus located 8 km northwest of Smarhonʹ. It was a small airfield with an unpaved revetment complex hidden in the forest to the northwest. The airfield is currently abandoned and increasingly overgrown.
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Smarhonʹ | |||||||
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Smarhonʹ, Grodno Region in Belarus | |||||||
Coordinates | 54°31′24″N 026°18′24″E | ||||||
Type | Air Base | ||||||
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Operator | Soviet Air Forces | ||||||
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Built | 1956 (1956) | ||||||
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Elevation | 170 metres (558 ft) AMSL | ||||||
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The base was home to the 405th Fighter Aviation Regiment between 1956 and 1960 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (ASCC: Fagot).[1]