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Dobroslavtsi Air Base:
Command: Sofia
Location: North of Sofia
Runway Length: 1,000 meters
Surface: Asphalt runway with grass apron
Facilities: N/A
Notes: None
Bozhurishte Air Base:
Command: Sofia
Location: Northwest of Sofia
Runway Length: 800 meters
Surface: Asphalt runway with grass apron
Facilities: Bozhurishte Military Flying School, Maintenance Shops, Sofia ADC headquarters.
Notes: First Bulgarian Air Force base constructed; almost all active VNVV units trace their lineage to creation at Bozhurishte.
Vrazhdebna Air Base / City of Sofia Civil Airport:
Command: Sofia
Location: East of Sofia
Runway Length: 1 runway 2,000 meters, 1 runway 900 meters
Surface: Concrete
Facilities: DAR aircraft factory; maintenance shops, earthen revetments for aircraft protection, covered maintenance sheds
Notes: Doubles as main airport for city of Sofia.
Graf Ignatievo Air Base:
Command: Maritsa
Location: North of Plovdiv
Runway Length: 1,800 meters, site is capable of expansion
Surface: Concrete runway, grass apron
Facilities: Maintenance shops; ADC headquarters for Maritsa region, Graf Ignatievo Military Flying School, covered earthen revetments
Notes: Doubles as main airport for city of Plovdiv. Originally built by the Germans for the Great War for basing zeppelins.
Shtraklevo Air Base:
Command: Eastern
Location: Rousse, Bulgaria
Runway Length: 1,100 meters, site is capable of expansion to 2,500 meters
Surface: Asphalt
Facilities: Maintenance shops
Notes: Doubles as main airport for city of Rousse.
Bezmer Air Base:
Command: Eastern
Location: Near Yambol
Runway Length: 1,900 meters, site is capable of expansion to 2,400 meters
Surface: Concrete
Facilities: Maintenance shops, headquarters of Strike Aviation Brigade
Notes: None
Rupite Air Base:
Command: Maritsa
Location: North of Petrich near the village of Rupte
Runway Length: 890 meters, site is capable of expansion to 2,500 meters
Surface: Tarmacadam with grass apron
Facilities: Not much
Notes: None
Yakimovo Air Base:
Command: Western Danube
Location: 22 kilometers south of Lom
Runway Length: 750 meters
Surface: Asphalt with grass apron
Facilities: Earthen revetments and maintenance shop.
Notes: None
Krumovo Air Base:
Command: Maritsa
Location: South of Plovdiv
Runway Length: 1,300 meters, site is capable of expansion to 2,500 meters
Surface: Concrete with grass apron
Facilities: Earthen revetments, maintenance shops
Notes: None
Petrevene Air Base:
Command: Western Danube
Location: 46 kilometers west of Lovech
Runway Length: 750 meters
Surface: Tarmacadam runway with tarmacadam apron
Facilities: Sparse
Notes: Smallest Bulgarian air base with paved airstrip
Loznitsa Air Base:
Command: Eastern
Location: Southeast of Razgrad
Runway Length: 1,120 meters
Surface: Concrete runway with concrete apron
Facilities: Earthen revetments, covered maintenance shops
Notes: One of the most modern air bases in Bulgaria
Balchik Air Base:
Command: Black Sea
Location: East of town of Balchik, 30 kilometers northeast of Varna
Runway Length: 1,800 meters
Surface: Concrete runway with concrete apron
Facilities: Earthen revetments, covered concrete revetments, Black Sea ADC headquarters, maintenance facilities
Notes: Comprehensively reconstructed in 1938. Airstrip and apron is highly recognizable due to the concrete being poured in interlocking hexagons
Uzundzhovo Air Base:
Command: Eastern
Location: North of Haskovo
Runway Length: 1,100 meters
Surface: Concrete
Facilities: Maintenance shops, etc
Notes: None
Sarafovo Air Base:
Command: Eastern
Location: Near Bourgas
Runway Length: 1,100 meters
Surface: Tarmacadam runway with grass apron
Facilities: Maintenance shops, etc
Notes: Doubles as civil airport for Bourgas.
Lake Chaika Naval Aerodrome:
Command: Bulgarian Naval Aviation
Location: Lake Chaika, outside Varna
Runway Length: Not applicable
Surface: Water
Facilities: Seaplane ramp, covered maintenance shed
Notes: Main seaplane base for Bulgarian Naval Aviation Wing.
Bourgas Naval Aerodrome:
Command: Bulgarian Naval Aviation
Location: South of Bourgas on Vaya Lake
Runway Length: Not applicable
Surface: Water
Facilities: Seaplane ramp, covered maintenance shed
Notes: Secondary seaplane base for Bulgarian Naval Aviation Wing.
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