Orenburg (also given as Orenburg Southwest) is a

Military Transport Aviation Military Transport Aviation Command is part of the Russian Air Force. Military Transport Aviation Command (russian: Кома́ндование вое́нно-тра́нспортной авиа́ции (ВТА) — '' Komandovaniye voyenno-trans ...

base in

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located 9 km southwest of

Orenburg Orenburg (russian: Оренбу́рг, ), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies on the Ural River, southeast of Moscow. Orenburg is also very close to the Kazakhstan-Russia bor ...

. It has a large tarmac and revetments for 35 large transports. The base is home to the 117th Military Transport Aviation Regiment as part of the 18th Guards Military Transport Aviation Division. ''This is sometimes erroneously referred to as Chalovskiy Airport.'

128th Guards Military Transport Air Regiment (128 Gv TAP) flying

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 ...

M arrived from

Panevėžys Air Base Panevėžys Air Base (also known as Pajuostis, and Tulpė) is an air base in Lithuania located 6 km east of Panevėžys. It is a transport base, with a very large ring taxiway 2 km in diameter. There are 32 large revetments. The mai ...

in newly independent

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in 1992. Subordinated to 18th Guards Military Transport Aviation Division 1966–1998. The regiment was disbanded in 1998. 117th Berlin Order of Kutuzov III degree Independent Aviation Regiment for Electronic Warfare flying

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 ...

PPS aircraft arrived from Siauliai in Lithuania in 1994. It was then redesignated a Military Transport Aviation Regiment (117 OVTAP) and starting flying the

. It was part of the

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 ...

. In 2009-2010 the regiment was redesignated the 6956th Aviation Base but was reverted in 2014. Also based at the airport is the 102nd Separate Mixed Aviation Squadron (102nd OSAE), part of the 31st Missile Army,

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. It is equipped with

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aircraft and

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s. Previously the base also hosted units of the now disbanded Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots. Chebenki airbase is also located in the vicinity of Orenburg.

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