Lutsk Air Base


Lutsk Military is an air base in Ukraine located 4 km north of Lutsk. It is a small military base with a long tarmac with several revetted areas.

History

It was home to 806th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment which flew Su-17 aircraft as recently as 1992. It currently serves as storage base for Sukhoi Su-24 bombers. From 1945 to 1992, the regiment was part of the 289th Division of the 57th Air Army, then the 14th Air Army, then the Air Forces of the Carpathian Military District, then the 14th Air Army once more. The airport use was abandoned in 2006. In 2018 it was revived and became the home of the 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade, which was before the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea based in Belbek Airport.