Oreshkovo Airfield is a general aviation airport in Vorotynsk, Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It is privately operated by the flying club "Albatross Aero", which operates general aviation flights as well as hosts the Oreshkovo Airpark aviation museum.
The airfield was built in the first months of the Great Patriotic War, and later became a Soviet Air Defence Forces base from 1952 to 1960, before serving as a base for DOSAAF. From 1992, the base hosted the 336th Independent Helicopter Regiment, later redesignated the 45th Independent Helicopter Regiment, until it was relocated in 2011.
In 2011, the airfield was transferred from the Russian Air Force to municipal ownership. Since 2015 it has been privately operated by "Albatross Aero". History During the Cold War it was a Soviet Air Defence Forces base. The 176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (78th Guards Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, Moscow Air Defence District) was based there from February 1952 to March 1960.
In July 1992, the 336th Independent Helicopter Regiment returned from Germany to the airfield and was placed under the Moscow Military District. The regiment then came under 1st Guards Tank Army from 31 December 1992.
On 1 October 1997, it was retitled the 45th Independent Helicopter Regiment.
The military airfield was closed in 2013 after the last unit stationed there, the 45th Independent Helicopter Regiment, was transferred to Vyazma in 2010.
As of 2023, it no longer has a military identification assigned, but is known by the local civilian code УУФО (UUFO).Indexes of Airports
The airfield is home to Mansur, a bear raised from an abandoned cub by pilots with the help of crowdfunding, who lives in a reserve on the airfield. The name means in the local Altaic language.
Oreshkovo Airpark
Aircraft on display
Albatros Aero
Aero L-29 Delfin Aero L-39 Albatros - Russ display team Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MT - Product 96B Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21U - Two seater training aircraft, Product 66 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23S - (23-21), Product 22 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23UB Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PU - Two-seat conversion trainer for MiG-25P interceptors Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25R - Product 84 Mikoyan MiG-27ML - Export variant developed for the Indian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-29SMT Mil Mi-8T Sukhoi Su-17M Sukhoi Su-24M - T6M, Product 44 Sukhoi Su-24MR - T6R, Product 48 Sukhoi Su-27M - Russian Knights. Sukhoi T10K-9 - Su-27K Sukhoi T10-15 - P-42
Technical Museum of Vadim Zadorozhny
Douglas C-47A Skytrain Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 - Restored from serial number 3872 found in Tver in 2005. North American SNJ-4 PZL Lim-2 - Polish licensed built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Polikarpov I-15bis - Restored from serial number 4439 found in Karelia in 1997. Polikarpov I-15bis DIT - Replica Polikarpov I-153 Polikarpov Po-2A/U-2
Privately owned
Aero L-29 Delfin - "Dolphin" Aero L-29 Delfin Aero L -39 Albatros Aero L-39 Albatros - cockpit section Beechcraft Bonanza Ilyushin Il-14T - "Penguin" Kamov Ka-26 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15Rbis Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23P - cockpit section Mikoyan MiG-29B - Swifts Mil Mi-8T Mil Mi-24K - cockpit section Nieuport 17 - Replica of serial number No. 1910 flown by flying ace Alexander Kazakov T-60 tank from the Antonov A-40 Tupolev Tu-141 Yakovlev UT-2
References
Sources RussianAirFields.com