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Orlovka (air base)

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Airport type
  
Military

Elevation AMSL
  
850 ft / 259 m

2,500
  
Concrete

Operator
  
Russian Air Force

Location
  
Vernoye

8,202
  
2,500

Elevation
  
259 m

Orlovka (also given as Orlovke or Vernoye) is an interceptor aircraft base in Amur Oblast, Russia located 8 km north of Vernoye, in the Svobodny, Amur Oblast area. It is a hardened airfield with a large central tarmac area.

Units stationed at Orlovka include:

  • 404 IAP (404th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with MiG-23P and then Su-27. It was commissioned in 1974 and decommissioned in 2000. The 404 IAP was dissolved into 23 IAP at Dzemgi.
  • 41 IAP (41st Interceptor Aviation Regiment) equipped with the MiG-29 starting in 1987.

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    Orlovka (air base) Wikipedia
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