Kyrgyz Air Force
The Kyrgyz Air Force — since 2006 formally the Air Defence Forces of the Kyrgyz Armed Forces — was built in 1992 from the wreck of the Soviet Union’s biggest foreign-pilot school at Kant and Frunze, sold or stored almost all of the hundreds of MiG-21s, L-39s and helicopters it inherited, and today flies a handful of Russian-supplied Mi-8, Mi-24 and An-26 aircraft beside a Russian air base, while the country’s Turkish armed drones belong to the border service rather than the air force.
The Kyrgyz Air Force story: a school for the world’s pilots, two foreign bases and helicopters on a Russian lifeline
1941–1991: Frunze, Kant and a school for the world’s pilots
Military aviation came to Kyrgyzstan by evacuation. In December 1941 the Odessa military aviation school of pilots, driven east by the German invasion, settled outside Frunze, today Bishkek; Wikipedia’s history of Kant records 1,507 pilots trained there during the war. In 1947 it became the Frunze Military Aviation School for Pilots, and in 1951 training regiments formed at Frunze-1 (the 714th) and Tokmok (the 716th), according to TechInformPress. From 1956 the school also trained foreigners — Hosni Mubarak and Hafez al-Assad among them — and in 1959 the 322nd regiment formed at Kant on MiG-15s, the date Kyrgyzstan still counts its Military Aviation Day from, every 18 August. By 1992 the 5th Central Courses based there had, by TechInformPress’s count, trained 21,682 specialists from 54 countries. It was a Soviet institution through and through, and that shaped what came next.
1992–1999: an inheritance too big to keep
In 1992 most of the permanent staff and training equipment of the 5th Central Courses left for Kurgan in Russia. What stayed behind was a large fleet without the people or money to fly it: TechInformPress lists about 80 MiG-21s, about 35 L-39s with some 40 more at Tokmok, 25 Mi-8s, about 35 Mi-24s and a few An-2, An-12 and An-26 transports. Wikipedia’s figures for 1996 are higher (about 100 MiG-21s, 96 L-39s, 65 helicopters). Most of it was sold: 23 MiG-21bis and four two-seaters went to Croatia in 1993–1994, about 15 Mi-8s to India, 19 MiG-21s to India in 2003. When the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan crossed into Batken in 1999, there was no combat jet to send: according to eyewitnesses cited by TechInformPress, Kyrgyz L-39 trainers flew bombing sorties and Uzbek Su-24s had to be called in. The founding date is itself untidy — Wikipedia gives 27 July 1992, the service celebrates 27 July for the 2006 reorganisation, and no founding decree was found.
2001–2014: two foreign bases, twenty kilometres apart
After 11 September 2001 Kyrgyzstan became a host rather than a flyer. On 16 December 2001 the United States opened a base beside Manas airport; renamed the Transit Center at Manas in 2009, it refuelled and moved the Afghan war, and Eurasianet counts 5.3 million service members from 26 countries passing through before it closed on 3 June 2014. Danish, Dutch and Norwegian F-16s flew combat missions from it in 2002–2003. Its politics were rough: parliament voted 78–1 to evict the Americans in February 2009, then accepted a new deal in June that raised the rent from about 17 million to 60 million dollars a year. Twenty kilometres east, Russia opened its 999th Air Base at Kant on 23 October 2003 under a bilateral agreement of 22 September 2003. Moscow presents Kant as part of the CSTO’s collective forces; a 2012 agreement extended the lease for 15 years in exchange, Wikipedia reports, for writing off 500 million dollars of Kyrgyz debt.
2006–2021: the Air Defence Forces and the Russian lifeline
In the second half of 2006 Kyrgyzstan merged its aviation and air defence units into a single service, the Air Defence Forces (Sily vozdushnoy oborony); its anniversary falls on 27 July. It was a small force living on Russian help. TechInformPress records two Mi-24Vs returned after repair in Russia in 2016, two An-26s delivered in August 2017 and two Mi-8s in April 2019, and says that by 2019 four Mi-8s, two Mi-24s and three L-39s were flyable. Two Mi-8s were lost in accidents in July 2014 and July 2018. At the 60th anniversary parade on 16 August 2019, Mir 24 reported, Mi-8MTs, An-26s and Su-25s flew; Kyrgyzstan has no Su-25s of its own, and the Russian Kant base, whose personnel attended, flies the type. FlightGlobal’s 2025 directory, as tabulated by Wikipedia, lists two An-26s, three Mi-8MTs, two Mi-17V-5s and two Mi-24Vs — no fixed-wing combat aircraft at all.
2021–2026: border wars, drones and a treaty
The fighting on the Tajik border changed what Kyrgyzstan bought, though not for the air force. In the April 2021 clash over a water intake near Kök-Tash, Kyrgyzstan reported 36 dead and Tajikistan 19; a Carnegie Moscow Center commentary, citing video, said Tajik Mi-24s fired rockets, and no Kyrgyz air role was reported. In December 2021 the border service, under the State Committee for National Security since 2020, received Bayraktar TB2s. In the September 2022 fighting Human Rights Watch documented armed drones on the Kyrgyz side and a laser-guided bomb that killed at least ten civilians at Ovchi Kal’acha; Tajikistan blamed a TB2, Kyrgyzstan called the fighting Tajik aggression, and each side blamed the other for starting it. Akinci and Aksungur drones followed on 28 October 2023. The two governments agreed their border in February and March 2025. What remains is a small helicopter force, strong air defence help from Russia, and armed drones in another ministry’s hands.
The Kyrgyz Air Force in numbers
Услуга
- Название на родном языке
- Кыргыз Республикасы Аскер-аба күчтөрүKyrgyz name as given by English Wikipedia; the Russian name of the service since 2006 is Sily vozdushnoy oborony (Air Defence Forces), as used by the Kyrgyz press. The official ministry site could not be reached to confirm spellings
- Основан
- 1992Wikipedia gives 27 July 1992. The Soviet training centre left for Russia in 1992 and Kyrgyzstan took over its aircraft; the present Air Defence Forces were formed in the second half of 2006 and mark 27 July. No founding decree was found
- Часть
- Armed Forces of the Kyrgyz RepublicAviation and air defence merged into one service in 2006
- Штаб-квартира
- BishkekPer Wikipedia
- Командир
- Col. Kylychbek Aidaraliev (latest confirmed)Appointed January 2017 per 24.kg as cited by Wikipedia; still quoted as commander in August 2019. Current holder not confirmed in 2026
- Military Aviation Day
- 18 AugustCounted from 1959, when the 322nd regiment formed at Kant; the 60th anniversary was celebrated on 16 August 2019
Сила
- Боевой самолет
- НетNo fixed-wing combat aircraft are listed by FlightGlobal’s 2025 directory as tabulated by Wikipedia. The Su-25s seen over Kyrgyzstan belong to the Russian base at Kant
- Вертолеты
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- Mi-8MT — 3
- Mi-17V-5 — 2
- Mi-24V — 2
FlightGlobal 2025 via Wikipedia. TechInformPress counted four Mi-8s and two Mi-24s flyable in 2019
- Транспорт
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- An-26 — 2
Two An-26s were delivered from Russia in August 2017
- Тренеры
- Three L-39s flyable in 2019Not listed in the 2025 directory; status in 2026 not confirmed
- Armed drones (border service)
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- Bayraktar TB2 — 3 ordered (Wikipedia)
- Bayraktar Akinci — number not published
- TAI Aksungur — 2 (Wikipedia)
Operated by the border service of the State Committee for National Security, not by the Air Defence Forces
- Наземная противовоздушная оборона
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- S-75M3 — 6
- S-125M1 — 8
- S-300PS and Tor-M2KM shown in 2025
Launcher counts from the Wikipedia table; the S-300PS and Tor-M2KM were reported from a 2025 parade rehearsal by Army Recognition via DefenceTurk
Инфраструктура
- Авиабазы
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- Kant — shared with the Russian 999th Air Base
- Frunze-1 (Bishkek)
Wikipedia also lists installations at Osh and Grigor’yevka; Armed Forces of Kyrgyzstan says all military aircraft are at Kant
- Foreign bases
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- Kant — Russian Aerospace Forces 999th Air Base since 23 October 2003
Su-25SM, Mi-8MTV-5-1 and Orlan-10 as of February 2023
- Former foreign base
- Manas — US Transit Center, 16 December 2001 to 3 June 2014Now the civil Manas International Airport
- Soviet training airfields
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- Kant — 322nd regiment from 1959
- Frunze-1 — 714th regiment from 1951
- Tokmok — 716th regiment from 1951
Training regiments of the Frunze school and the 5th Central Courses
How the Kyrgyz Air Force is organised
Since 2006 the Air Defence Forces of the Kyrgyz Armed Forces, with headquarters in Bishkek, combining a small aviation arm and ground-based air defence from the S-75 to the S-300PS. FlightGlobal’s 2025 directory, as tabulated by Wikipedia, lists two An-26s, five Mi-8s and Mi-17s and two Mi-24Vs and no combat aircraft; the Su-25s over Kyrgyzstan belong to the Russian base at Kant. The country’s Bayraktar TB2, Akinci and Aksungur armed drones belong to the border service of the State Committee for National Security, not to the air force.
Air Defence Forces
In Bishkek per Wikipedia: aviation and air defence were merged into one service in the second half of 2006, which marks 27 July. Col. Kylychbek Aidaraliev, appointed in January 2017 per 24.kg as cited by Wikipedia, is the latest confirmed commander; no official page naming the holder in 2026 could be reached.
Air Defence Forces aviation
Three Mi-8MTs, two Mi-17V-5s, two Mi-24Vs and two An-26s in FlightGlobal’s 2025 directory as tabulated by Wikipedia, and no fixed-wing combat aircraft. Where they are based is not settled: Wikipedia says all military aircraft are at Kant, while ww2.dk has the Kyrgyz unit moving to Frunze-1 in 2003.
999th Air Base (Russian Aerospace Forces)
Russian, not Kyrgyz: opened on 23 October 2003 under a bilateral agreement and flying Su-25SM attack aircraft, Mi-8MTV-5-1 helicopters and Orlan-10 drones as of February 2023, per Wikipedia. Moscow presents it as part of the CSTO’s collective forces; a 2012 lease runs for 15 years from 2017.
What the Kyrgyz Air Force flies today
Все виды, находящиеся под прицелом, имеют ссылку на соответствующую страницу в Книге Зверей, если таковая имеется. В статистике учитываются самолеты, находящиеся в резерве, а не самолеты, доступные в конкретный день.
| Тип | Роль | В эксплуатации | С | Единицы | Примечания | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mil Mi-8MT and Mi-17V-5В эксплуатации | Utility and transport helicopter | 5 | 1992 | — | Three Mi-8MT and two Mi-17V-5 per FlightGlobal 2025 as tabulated by Wikipedia; TechInformPress counted four flyable Mi-8s in 2019. | |
| Ми-24ВВ эксплуатации | Ударный вертолет | 2 | 1992 | — | Two per FlightGlobal 2025 via Wikipedia and per TechInformPress for 2019. | |
| Антонов Ан-26В эксплуатации | Транспорт | 2 | 2017 | — | Two per FlightGlobal 2025 via Wikipedia. | |
| Байкар Байрактар ТБ2В эксплуатации | Armed reconnaissance drone (border service) | — | 2021 | — | Wikipedia gives three ordered; neither government nor Baykar published a delivered number in the sources checked. | |
| Baykar Bayraktar AkinciВ эксплуатации | Armed long-endurance drone (border service) | — | 2023 | — | Число не опубликовано. | |
| TAI AksungurВ эксплуатации | Armed long-endurance drone (border service) | 2 | 2023 | — | Two delivered per Wikipedia citing DefenceTurk. |
По заказу
| Тип | Заказано | Первая поставка | Примечания | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZALA/STC Orlan-10По заказу | — | Listed as on order by Wikipedia’s table (FlightGlobal 2025); no quantity or date was published in the sources checked. The Russian Kant base already flies the type. |
Every type the Kyrgyz Air Force has retired
5 types, from the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Soviet 322nd regiment) to the Aero L-39 Albatros. Максимальные показатели — это количество самолетов, принятых на вооружение за весь срок службы, а не численность парка на какую-либо конкретную дату.
| Тип | Роль | Пик | Подано | Заменено на | Примечания | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Аэро Л-39 Альбатрос | Учебно-тренировочный реактивный самолет и легкий штурмовик | — | 1992– | — | 35–96: TechInformPress gives about 35 inherited plus about 40 at Tokmok; Wikipedia gives 96 in 1996. Three were flyable in 2019. | |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21bis and MiG-21UM/US | Fighter (training fleet) | — | 1992– | — | About 80–100: TechInformPress gives about 80 inherited, Wikipedia about 100 decommissioned in 1996. | |
| Antonov An-12 | Транспорт | 2 | 1992– | — | Two inherited. | |
| Antonov An-2 | Транспорт коммунальных услуг | 4 | 1992– | — | Four inherited. | |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Soviet 322nd regiment) | Training fighter (Soviet predecessor) | — | 1959– | — | Не опубликовано. |
Where the Kyrgyz Air Force flies from
Черные значки обозначают действующие базы, полые значки — закрытые аэродромы. Kant, about 20 kilometres east of Bishkek, has been shared with Russia’s 999th Air Base since 2003; Manas, the US base from 16 December 2001 to 3 June 2014, is the civil airport again. Tokmok was a Soviet training field and a Kyrgyz storage base until 2001, whether Kyrgyz military aircraft still use Frunze-1 is not confirmed, and Osh is listed as a candidate, not a confirmed air base. Entries with no published aerodrome data carry no pin.
| База | ИКАО | Статус | Взлетная полоса | Подразделения и самолеты |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KantChuy Region (Ysyk-Ata District) | UAFW | Активный | — |
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| Osh AirportOsh Region | UCFO | Активный | 12/302812 м | — |
| Frunze-1BishkekBishkek City | Закрыто | — | ||
| ManasTransit Center at ManasChuy Region | UCFM | Закрыто в 2014 году. | 07/254,204 mконкретный |
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| TokmokTokmak-2Chuy Region | Закрыто в 2001 году. | — |
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Ни одна авиабаза не соответствует этому поисковому запросу.
Who is stationed where in the Kyrgyz Air Force
Авиационные подразделения по базам, начиная с действующих подразделений. The Soviet training regiments of the Frunze school — the 322nd at Kant, the 714th and the 716th at Tokmok — are listed and marked as Soviet, as are the Russian 999th Air Base and the American and allied units at Manas. Where two sources place a unit at different airfields, as with the 714th, the entry says so.
- 999th Air Base (Russian Aerospace Forces)Air base with attack, helicopter and drone units · foreign
- Su-25SM, Mi-8MTV-5-1, Orlan-10 drone
- Air Defence Forces aviation (Kyrgyz Armed Forces)Transport and helicopter aviation · active
- Mi-8MT and Mi-17V-5, Ми-24В, An-26
- 322nd Training Aviation Regiment (Soviet Air Forces)1959–1992
- MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21bis
- Frunze Military Aviation School for Pilots and 5th Central Courses for aviation personnel1941–1992
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Поисковое задание не дало результатов.
Kyrgyz Air Force milestones, 1914 to today
December: the Odessa military aviation school of pilots is evacuated to Frunze; 1,507 wartime pilots are trained there.
June: renamed the Frunze Military Aviation School for Pilots; 2,573 fighter pilots are trained in 1945–1947.
Training regiments form at Frunze-1 (714th) and Tokmok (716th); from 1956 the school also trains foreign pilots, including Hosni Mubarak and Hafez al-Assad.
The 322nd regiment forms at Kant on MiG-15s; the 5th Central Courses follow. Kyrgyzstan dates its Military Aviation Day (18 August) from this year.
The 5th Central Courses move their staff and equipment to Kurgan, Russia; Kyrgyzstan takes over about 80 MiG-21s, dozens of L-39s and some 60 helicopters. Wikipedia dates the air force from 27 July 1992.
Borrowed MiG-21s go back to Russia; in 1993–1994 23 MiG-21bis and four two-seaters are sold to Croatia, and Mi-8s begin going to India.
30 July–27 September: Batken conflict. L-39s reportedly bomb militant positions; Uzbek Su-24s are called in.
16 December: the US base at Manas opens.
23 October: Russia’s 999th Air Base opens at Kant. 19 MiG-21s are sold to India.
Second half of the year: aviation and air defence merge into the Air Defence Forces, which mark 27 July.
19 February: parliament votes 78–1 to close Manas; a June deal keeps it as the Transit Center at Manas at 60 million dollars a year.
Russia and Kyrgyzstan agree a 15-year lease on Kant from 2017, with Kyrgyz debt written off.
3 June: the Transit Center at Manas closes. July: a military Mi-8 is lost in an accident.
January: Col. Kylychbek Aidaraliev takes command. August: two An-26s arrive from Russia. April 2019: two Mi-8s from Russia; 16 August 2019: an air parade marks 60 years of military aviation.
28 April–1 May: border clash with Tajikistan; Kyrgyzstan reports 36 dead. December: the border service receives Bayraktar TB2s.
14–20 September: the heaviest border fighting with Tajikistan; armed drones are used on the Kyrgyz side, per Human Rights Watch.
28 October: Akinci and Aksungur drones are handed to the border service.
30 July 2024: Kyrgyzstan says 94 per cent of the Tajik border is agreed. 21 February and 13 March 2025: the two countries agree their common border. April 2025: S-300PS and Tor-M2KM appear at a parade rehearsal.
Every war the Kyrgyz Air Force has fought
Вылеты и поражения там, где это указано в протоколе, и полная пустота там, где этого нет.
- Batken conflict 1999 Supported ground forces against Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fighters with transport, helicopter and improvised L-39 strikes; Uzbekistan’s air force also struck
- Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border clash 2021 No Kyrgyz military aviation role was reported in the sources checked
- Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan border conflict 2022 Armed drones were used on the Kyrgyz side, according to Human Rights Watch; the TB2s belong to the border service, not the air force
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Каждый тип корабля, имеющий свою страницу в Книге Зверей, сначала поступивший на вооружение, а затем — по году вывода из состава флота.
Все факты проверены.
- TechInformPress (Sergey Drozdov): Voennaya aviatsiya Kyrgyzstana, 5 August 2020Russian specialist article. 5th Central Courses (5 TsK PUAK) trained 21,682 specialists from 54 countries before 1992; staff and equipment moved to Kurgan in 1992; Kyrgyzstan inherited about 80 MiG-21, about 35 L-39 (plus about 40 at Tokmok), 25 Mi-8, about 35 Mi-24, 4 An-2, 2 An-26, 2 An-12; sales abroad 1993-2008; 714th (Frunze-1) and 716th (Tokmok) training regiments 1951, 322nd at Kant 1959 on MiG-15; Batken 1999 air use per eyewitnesses; Air Defence Forces formed in the second half of 2006; two Mi-24V back from repair in Russia 2016, two An-26 from Russia August 2017, two Mi-8 April 2019; 2019 active fleet four Mi-8, two Mi-24, three L-39; Mi-8 losses July 2014 and July 2018.
- Mir 24: Kyrgyzstan marks 60 years of military aviation with an air parade (16 August 2019)Mi-8MT, An-26 and Su-25 flew; Col. Kylychbek Aidaraliev quoted as commander of the Air Defence Forces; Russian Kant base personnel attended.
- Knews: Air Defence Forces of Kyrgyzstan turn seven (26 July 2013)Official Russian name Sily vozdushnoy oborony (SVO) Vooruzhennykh sil Kyrgyzskoy Respubliki; seventh anniversary on 27 July 2013; celebration at military unit 23565.
- Azattyk (RFE/RL): Kyrgyzstan celebrates Military Aviation Day (18 August 2011)18 August is Military Aviation Day; 52nd anniversary in 2011; Kyrgyz military aviation traced to December 1941; Kant base personnel attended. Originally published at rus.azattyk.org.
- Eurasianet (Joshua Kucera): U.S. Formally Closes Its Kyrgyzstan Air Base (3 June 2014)Closure ceremony 3 June 2014; 5.3 million personnel from 26 countries transited; rent 17 million rising to 60 million dollars (2009); about 30 million dollars of equipment left.
- Форсварет: Афганистан – непреходящая свободаDanish, Dutch and Norwegian F-16s at Manas; Norway left 1 April 2003, Denmark and the Netherlands 1 October 2003; 743 Danish missions.
- The Diplomat: More Than a Border Skirmish Between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan (September 2022)Kyrgyz officials: at least 59 killed by 18 September; Tajik officials: at least 35; Kyrgyzstan called it an act of aggression; 136,000 displaced in Kyrgyzstan.
- Human Rights Watch: Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Apparent War Crimes in Border Conflict (2 May 2023)14-17 September 2022; HRW documented 37 civilians killed (5 children); total may reach 51 civilians killed; armed drones on the Kyrgyz side; laser-guided bomb at Ovchi Kal’acha square around 5 p.m. on 16 September killed at least 10 civilians; neither government gave HRW information on its own forces’ attacks.
- Radio Ozodi (RFE/RL): Names of 83 victims of the 14-17 September conflict (20 September 2022)RFE/RL list of 83 Tajik dead from official data, own sources and social media; Tajik authorities reported 41 dead without publishing a list. Originally rus.ozodi.org.
- DefenceTurk: Kyrgyzstan chooses Turkish UAVs (28 October 2023)Handover ceremony of Bayraktar Akinci and TUSAS Aksungur to the Kyrgyz border service on 28 October 2023 with President Japarov; TB2 delivered December 2021; TB2 base opened September 2022; Akinci shown with MAM-T munitions.
- DefenceTurk: Kyrgyzstan to procure Aksungur and Akinci (25 November 2022)President Japarov announced Aksungur and Akinci after the TB2; border security a state priority.
- DefenceTurk: Kyrgyzstan strengthens air defence with Russian systems (30 April 2025)Citing Army Recognition and Telegram video: S-300PS and Tor-M2KM shown at a Victory Day parade rehearsal, S-125-2BM Pechora modernised in Belarus; Russian pledge of about 1.1 billion dollars in 2012; Rubezh-2024 exercise.
- DefenceTurk: article index for Kyrgyzstan (headlines and dates)Headlines only: Kyrgyzstan to become a TB2 user (22 October 2021); TB2s delivered (18 December 2021); Kyrgyzstan answers claim that Tajikistan bought TB2 (3 May 2022); base built for TB2 (14 September 2022); Akinci for Kyrgyzstan (13 October 2022); Aksungur deliveries to Kyrgyzstan and Angola (17 March 2023).
- ww2.dk: 322nd Training Aviation RegimentActivated 1952(?) at Kant under the Frunze school; 5th Central Courses from August 1959; taken over by Kyrgyzstan 1 January 1992; Kant 1952-2003, Frunze-1/Bishkek from 2003; MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21bis.
- ww2.dk: 714th Training Aviation RegimentPlaces the 714th at Kant from 1952(?) with MiG-15, MiG-17, MiG-21bis to 1 January 1992; conflicts with TechInformPress, which places it at Frunze-1 on Yak-18s.
- ww2.dk: 716th Training Aviation RegimentActivated 1951 at Tokmak-2 under the Frunze school; 5th Central Courses from August 1959; Il-28, Yak-18, L-39; taken over by Kyrgyzstan 1 January 1992 as a storage base; disbanded 2001.
- Congressional Research Service: Kyrgyzstan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests (97-690, 30 August 2013)Kant: about 500 Russian troops in early 2013, operates as part of the CSTO, 2002 basing agreement at 4.5 million dollars a year, September 2012 15-year extension (‘united Russian military base’), rent unchanged. Manas: about 1,500 US troops and contractors, KC-135 and C-17, nearly 300,000 personnel a year, rent 17.4 to 60 million dollars (June 2009), Atambayev’s June 2013 law to close it in July 2014.
- OurAirports: Kant Air Base (UAFW)Public-domain database: 42.853199, 74.846497; elevation 2,549 ft; tagged military; record last updated 2008; no runway data.
- OurAirports: Airports in KyrgyzstanCountry list; Manas listed as UAFM (older code), Kant Air Base UAFW, Frunze (closed), Tokmok.
- OurAirports: Frunze Airport (KG-0009)Closed; 42.834, 74.5774; elevation 2,771 ft.
- OurAirports: Tokmok Airport (UAFF)Small airport, 42.8289, 75.3360, elevation 2,770 ft; identity with the military Tokmak-2 field not confirmed.
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