Pribytki

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Zyabrovka Pribytki
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Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		unknown
Serves		Gomel
Elevation AMSL		456 ft (139 m)
Coordinates		52°18′18″N, 031°9′48″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
	9842	3000	Concrete

Pribytki (also Zyabrovka) is an air base in Belarus located 16 km southeast of Gomel. In the early 1960s it was flying Tupolev Tu-16R aircraft. The airfield was renovated in 1963 ^[1]. It received the Tu-22R around 1966, and by 1967 had 24 based there ^[1]. The reconnaissance aircraft were tasked with operations in the Baltic and northern Europe ^[1]. From 1973 into the 1980s pilots from Libya and Iraq trained in the Tu-22 here ^[1]. The Tu-22 units were disbanded in 1994 and the aircraft sent to Engels-2 for disposal ^[1].

Pribytki was home to 290 Gv ODRAP (290th Guards Long Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying Tu-16R from the early 1960s to 1994 and the Tu-22RDM from the 1960s to 1994 ^{[2] [3]}; plus a number of Tu-22R aircraft ^[2].

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