Migalovo (also given as Tver Migalovo, Kalinin) is an air base in

Tver Oblast Tver Oblast (russian: Тверска́я о́бласть, ''Tverskaya oblast'', ), from 1935 to 1990 known as Kalinin Oblast (), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tver. It was named after Mikhai ...

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located 10 km west of

Tver Tver ( rus, Тверь, p=tvʲerʲ) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is northwest of Moscow. Population: Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in the Russian ...

. It is a large military airlift base. It currently houses all of Russia's remaining Antonov An-22 fleet. It is an

Ilyushin Il-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau. It was first planned as a comm ...

base, with some

Antonov An-12 The Antonov An-12 (Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than thr ...

aircraft stored. The base is home to the 2nd Central Scientific Research Institute and the 8th Military Transport Aviation Regiment which is part of the 12th Mginska Krasnoznamennaya Military Transport Aircraft Division. Some of the units that made Migalovo home were: * Headquarters

12th Military Transport Aviation Division The 12th Mginskaya Red Banner Military Transport Aviation Division (''12-я Мгинская Краснознаменная военно-транспортная авиационная дивизия'') is a formation of the 61st Air Army of the ...

(from 1946, under the title 12th Transport Aviation Division) * 8 VTAP (8th Military Transport Aviation Regiment) flying

An-12 The Antonov An-12 (Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than thr ...

and An-22. * 196 VTAP (196th Military Transport Aviation Regiment) flying Il-76. * 224 LO VTA (224th Transport Aviation ~Detachment~) flying Il-76 and An-124. * 2 TSNII (2nd Central Scientific Research and Test Institute of the Ministry of Defense). * 274th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (274 APIB) flying Su-17C. Arrived from Kubinka in December 1974. Disbanded 1993.http://www.strizhi.ru/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1174753071 an
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