Dzyomgi Airport () is an air base in

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, located northeast of

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. Dzyomgi is Komsomolsk-na-Amure's northeast side airport, handling small airliner traffic. On May 7, 1939, at the airfield, the formation of the 60th Fighter Aviation Regiment began on I-16 aircraft. From 2000-2001 the base has been home to the 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (23 IAP) which flies the

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M2/SM and the

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S under the 303rd Composite Aviation Division. After the beginning of the

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, the regiment received Guards status as the 23rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment. The airport is also the site of a major

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plant (GAZ 126), built in 1934, where the

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and later models have been built. In September 2007, Sukhoi unveiled a passenger jet, the Superjet 100, at the airport. Beginning in January 2010, the new fifth generation stealth fighter jet the Sukhoi PAK FA (T-50) was built at Dzyomgi Airport. The airfield has been reported as the factory airfield of the

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(KnAAPO).

Military use

60th Fighter Aviation Regiment (60 IAP) was active at this airfield from 1945, flying

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aircraft from June 1985.Holm, http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/iap/60iap.htm After the war it took on the

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45010. It was part of the 8th Air Defence Corps of the 11th Independent Air Defence Army. In 2000-2001, it was merged with the 404 IAP at Orlovka to become the 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment.

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high-resolution satellite imagery accessed in 2006 showed a rare glimpse of over 40

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distributed across the airfield on a webwork of interceptor alert pads, much as Soviet PVO bases would have operated during the peak of the

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. Although some of the aircraft are probably operational, others are probably simply parked and awaiting depot maintenance at the airfield's

facility.

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Military use

See also

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