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Levashovo
Levashovo,Saint Petersburg in Russia
Satellite imagery of Levashovo air base
Ilyushin aircraft at Levashovo, 22 September 2007
Site information
Type	Air Base
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Russian Aerospace Forces
Controlled by	6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
Location
Levashovo Shown within Saint Petersburg Show map of Saint Petersburg Levashovo Levashovo (Russia) Show map of Russia
Coordinates	60°5′12″N30°11′36″E / 60.08667°N 30.19333°E /60.08667; 30.19333
Site history
Built	1960 (1960)
In use	1960 - present
Airfield information
Identifiers	ICAO: ULLV
Elevation	18 metres (59 ft)AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 08/26 2,700 metres (8,858 ft) Concrete

Levashovo (alsoLevashevo) is an air base located to the southwest ofLevashovo, within the northern limits of the federal subject ofSaint Petersburg,Russia.

The base is home to the33rd Independent Composite Aviation Regiment.^[1]

It houses mostly small transport planes mostly belonging to 549 AB (549th Air Base), most notably theAntonov An-12,Antonov An-26, andTupolev Tu-134, along withMi-6 andMi-8 helicopters.

The 549th Air Base has seen many redesignations since being activated in 1942 as the 6th independent Transport Aviation Unit.^[2]

• 20.8.46 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
• 11.3.48 renamed 247th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron.
• 20.10.81 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
• 5.6.96 renamed 202nd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron.
• 27.4.98 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
• 2004 renamed 87th Aviation Base, and later 549th Aviation Base.

The unit has been based at Levashevo since 1960. Aircraft in service have included the Mi-1, Mi-2, Mi-4, Mi-6 (Mi-6VPK and Mi-22 in the 1980s), Mi-8,Li-2,Il-14, An-2, An-14, An-12, An-24/26,Tupolev Tu-124 andTu-134, 1981-, and theIlyushin Il-22 from 1981.In 2000, according to theConventional Forces in Europe treaty data exchange, the unit had 37 Mi-8 and some An-12. In 2009, the unit had two Tu-134s, 6 An-26, 5 An-12 and 5 Mi-8.

The unit has been part of:

• 13th Air Army, 1942–1949
• 76th Air Army, 1949–1980
• VVSLeningrad Military District, 1980–1988
• 76th Air Army, 1988–1998
• 6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army VVS and PVO, 1998–present

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