Aste Airfield Explained

Aste Airfield
Type:Military
Operator:Soviet Air Force
Location:Kuressaare
Elevation-F:69
Pushpin Map:Estonia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Estonia
Pushpin Label:Aste Airfield
Metric-Rwy:Y
R1-Number:17/35
R1-Length-F:6,562
R1-Length-M:2,000
R1-Surface:Grass
Footnotes:Sources:[1]

Asta (Estonian: Aste) was a Soviet air base in Estonia located near the town of Aste, 12km (07miles) north of Kuressaare. It is on Saaremaa Island, and was listed on the 1974 Department of Defense Global Navigation Chart No. 3 as having jet facilities. It was probably a front-line interceptor or dispersal base. In the 1980s or 1990s it was plowed under. Very little of the base remains.

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  1. http://www.forgottenairfields.com/estonia/saare/aste-s281.html Aste Airfield