Mukachevo is an air base in Ukraine located 6 km southwest of Mukachevo. During the Cold War it served as a small interceptor base. The airfield had a loop taxiway with many parking revetments. The air base has since been moved to Stryi Air Base, leaving the airfield standing abandoned and empty.
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
Owner | Municipality of Mukachevo | ||||||||||
Location | Mukachevo, Ukraine | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 390 ft / 119 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 48°24′0″N 022°41′0″E | ||||||||||
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On 27 April 2021 Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast Anatoliy Poloskov, Zakarpattia Oblast Council chairman Oleksiy Petrov, representatives of the State Agency for Infrastructure Projects and the Mukachevo Territorial Community signed a quadripartite Memorandum of Cooperation on the design and construction of a new airport in Zakarpattia Oblast on the territory of Mukachevo.[1] The new airport would replace Uzhhorod International Airport as Zakarpattia's main air link.[1] Its proposed advantages over Uzhhorod will be a more centralized location, as well as its location completely within Ukrainian airspace (current flights to and from Uzhhorod have to cross over into Slovak territory).[1]