Pryluky Air Base

Pryluky (also given as Priluki) is an air base in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine located 6 km west of Pryluky. This airfield was Ukraine's primary Tupolev Tu-160 bomber base (with Uzyn having the nation's Tupolev Tu-95 fleet). There are revetments for 20 large aircraft.

Pryluky
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Ukrainian Air Force
Location	Pryluky
Elevation AMSL	449 ft / 137 m
Coordinates	50°34′0″N 032°19′0″E / 50.56667°N 32.31667°E
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 9,842 3,000 Concrete

Pryluky accepted USSR's first Tu-160 (Blackjack) in April 1987, building its fleet up to 19 by 1994. Between October 1999 and February 2000 Ukraine turned over 8 Tu-160 bombers to Russia to pay off energy debts; these are now at Russia's Engels-2 air base.

Units stationed at Pryluky include:

• 184 GV TBAP (184th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Tu-16 aircraft beginning in 1955, then acquiring the Tupolev Tu-22M4 in 1984 and the Tu-160 from 1987 until 2000.^[1] It also flew the Tu-134UBL trainer.^[1]