Chernyakhovsk Naval Guards Airbase

 airport, military airbase, military

Guard Air Fighter Sqdr.: 7045th. AF Bdge. (Chernyakhovsk)
Formerly 4th. Gv MSHAP
(4th Guards Naval Shturmovik Aviation Regiment)
Guard CO Colonel Andrei Naumov (2008)

Черняхо́вск : Chernyakhovsk – is a naval air base located 4 km southwest of the city of Chernyakhovsk (formerly Insterburg) in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia. It is a medium sized interceptor airfield, listed as a nuclear bomber base by a Natural Resources Defense Council study. It was a major base for Su-24 (Fencer) aircraft with up to 29 examples flown by 4 Gv MSHAP (4th Guards Naval Shturmovik Aviation Regiment).

It was also home to 15 ODRAP (15th Independent Long-Range Reconnaissance Regiment). A few sources cite the airfield as being a Tupolev Tu-16 base during the 1960s or 1970s. On 30th July 2006 a SU-24M crashed during take-off (flight was devoted to Navy Day Celebration), the pilot died.

The naval air sqdrn of 7054 airbase, comprises x45 Su-24M, & x24 Su-24MR

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