Dorokhovo (air base)
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| Dorokhovo | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Russian Air Force | ||||||||||
| Location | Bezhetsk | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 469 ft / 143 m | ||||||||||
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Dorokhovo (also Bezhetsk, Bezhetsk, or Dorokhov) is an air base in Bezhetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located 7 km southwest of Bezhetsk. It is a small interceptor base with about 10 alert pads for fighter aircraft and some other pads and tarmac space. In 1967 it received some of the first Sukhoi Su-15 (Flagon) interceptors.
It was home to 611 IAP (611th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying 39 Su-15 aircraft in the 1970s and Su-27 aircraft by the 1990s.[1] It also had MiG-31 aircraft.[2]
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