What city was the landing site for the Soviet fighter pilot whose biography was written by John Barron in 1980?
Viktor Belenko Viktor Ivanovich Belenko (Russian: Виктор Иванович Беленко , born 15 February 1947) is a former Soviet pilot who defected to the West while flying his MiG-25 'Foxbat' jet fighter and landed in Hakodate, Japan. The opportunity to examine the plane up close was an intelligence bonanza for the West. Belenko later became an American aerospace engineer.
Kilpyavr (air base) Kilpyavr (Russian: "Килпъявр" or "Килп-Явр", Finnish: "Kilpijärvi". Also appearing in many different forms as "Kilpajärvi", "Kilp-Yavr", "Kil'p-Yar", "Kilp-Yar", "Kilpyarvi") is a military air base in Murmansk Oblast, Russia located 30 km northwest of Murmansk. It is a small interceptor base operated by the 941st Fighter Aviation Regiment) (941 IAP). Kilpyavr operated MiG-19, Su-9, and MiG-23M aircraft, and upgraded to Su-27 aircraft in 1985. Google Earth high-resolution satellite imagery dating to around March 2007 showed 37 interceptor aircraft on the tarmac.