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Levashovo
Levashovo
Levashovo, Saint Petersburg in Russia
	Satellite imagery of Levashovo air base
	Ilyushin aircraft at Levashovo, 22 September 2007
	Levashovo Shown within Saint Petersburg Levashovo Levashovo (Russia)
Coordinates	60°5′12″N 30°11′36″E / 60.08667°N 30.19333°E
Type	Air Base
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Russian Aerospace Forces
Controlled by	6th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
Site history
Built	1960
In use	1960 - present
Airfield information
Identifiers	ICAO: ULLV
Elevation	18 metres (59 ft) AMSL
Runways
08/26	2,500 metres (8,202 ft) Concrete

Levashovo (also Levashevo) is an air base located to the southwest of Levashovo, within the northern limits of the federal subject of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The base is home to the 33rd Independent Composite Aviation Regiment.^[1]

It houses mostly small transport planes mostly belonging to 549 AB (549th Air Base), most notably the Antonov An-12, Antonov An-26, and Tupolev Tu-134, along with Mi-6 and Mi-8 helicopters.

The 549th Air Base has seen many redesignations since being activated in 1942 as the 6th independent Transport Aviation Unit.^[2]

20.8.46 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
11.3.48 renamed 247th independent Mixed Aviation Squadron.
20.10.81 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
5.6.96 renamed 202nd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron.
27.4.98 renamed 138th independent Mixed Aviation Regiment.
2004 renamed 87th Aviation Base, and later 549th Aviation Base.

The unit has been based at Levashevo since 1960. Aircraft in service have included the Mi-1, Mi-2, Mi-4, Mi-6 (Mi-6VPK and Mi-22 in the 1980s), Mi-8, Li-2, Il-14, An-2, An-14, An-12, An-24/26, Tu-124, Tu-134, 1981-, and the Ilyushin Il-22 from 1981. In 2000, according to the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty data exchange, the unit had 37 Mi-8 and some An-12. In 2009, the unit had two Tu-134s, 6 An-26, 5 An-12 and 5 Mi-8.

The unit has been part of: