Saki Naval Air Station (Novofedorivka)

Ukraine / Krym / Saky /
 air force base, naval air station
Air Base of Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Formerly housing Tu-16R recon-bombers, the base became famous in the 1970s as the home of the USSR's nascent carrier aviation force. Many aircraft and special facilities remain from this era.

In more recent sources, the base in also called Novofedorivka. The base was captured from Ukraine on 22 March 2014 by Russian forces, and is equiped with Su-24 en Su-30.

In July 2014 the NITKA aircraft carrier deck simulator in Saki resumed operations. It is now being used to train the Russian Navy’s carrier-based aircraft pilots. Pilots of the 279th Independent Carrier-based Fighter Regiment of the Northern Fleet have already trained there using Su-33 fighters and Su-25UTG training planes. Previously, in 2013 Russia decided to stop using the Soviet-built NITKA facility in Saki, and built a similar facility in Yeysk in 2012-2014. Nevertheless, it has now been decided to continue using the Saki facility, even though it requires major refurbishment.

Here participants of the Yalta conference of 1944 arrived.
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Coordinates:   45°5'25"N   33°35'56"E

Comments

  • after the coorporation between Ukraina and Russia, at the 19th of august 2010 landed to Saki SU-33 and SU-25 from the North Navy base Malyavr, and will stay here for training on NITKA.
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