| Spassk-Dalny | |
| Icao: | UWKX |
| Type: | Military |
| Owner: | Ministry of Defence |
| Operator: | N/A |
| Location: | Spassk-Dalny, Primorsky Krai, Russia |
| Built: | Unknown |
| Used: | Unknown |
| Elevation-F: | 105m (344feet) |
| Elevation-M: | 105 |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Primorsky Krai |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Label: | Spassk-Dalny |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Primorsky Krai |
| R1-Number: | 04/22 |
| R1-Length-F: | 10008 |
| R1-Length-M: | 3050 |
Spassk-Dalny Airfield, also known in the US intelligence community as Spassk-Dalniy East, was a Soviet Air Force base in Primorsky Krai, Russia located 6km (04miles) northeast of Spassk-Dalny, Russia. Spassk-Dalny was primarily a Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) interceptor airfield for defending against Western aircraft, with the 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment (11th Independent Air Defence Army) based here. However, the 219th Long-Range Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment of the 30th Air Army, Long Range Aviation was also a tenant during the 1950s and 1960s, operating Tupolev Tu-16 Badger aircraft for intelligence operations around east Asia.
In the late 1940s the airfield was populated by the 18th and 51st Brigades of the 27th Air Division.[1]
In the early 1960s Sukhoi Su-7 and Su-9 were based here.[2]
A 1966 satellite overflight spotted 21 Tu-16 Badger, 18 Su-7 Fitter, 21 Yak-28 Firebar, and 2 MiG-15 Fagot at this airfield.[3] The CIA in 1969 identified the Firebar aircraft as the nearest potential threat to SR-71 operations over North Korea.[4] The base's role diminished in the 1970s with the deployment of advanced MiG-25 Foxbat aircraft at Chuguyevka 60 miles (100 km) to the southeast.
In 1985 the CIA reported that Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23P (Flogger-G) and the training variant MiG-23U (Flogger-C) were crated at Spassk-Dalny and sent to Cam Ranh Base in Vietnam.[5]
Google Earth imagery in 2005 showed the airfield was already abandoned and by the 2010s that the airfield was being torn up for reclamation of concrete.