Dzyomgi Airport (russian: Аэропорт Дзёмги) is an air base in Khabarovsk Krai,

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located northeast of

Komsomolsk-na-Amure Komsomolsk-on-Amur ( rus, Комсомольск-на-Амуре, r=Komsomolsk-na-Amure, p=kəmsɐˈmolʲsk nɐɐˈmurʲə) is a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the west bank of the Amur River in the Russian Far East. It is located ...

. Dzyomgi is Komsomolsk-na-Amure's northeast side airport, handling small airliner traffic. The base is home to the 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment which flies the

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M2/SM and the

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S under the

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. 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

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, at the airport, as well in January 2010 the new fifth generation stealth fighter jet the Sukhoi PAK FA (T-50). The airfield has been reported as the factory airfield of the

Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant (KnAAPO or KnAAZ; russian: Комсомольский-на-Амуре авиационный завод); based in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East, is the largest aircraft-manufacturing company in Rus ...

(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 In 2000-2001 it was merged with the 404 IAP at Orlovka to become the 23rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (23 IAP). Google Earth 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 Cold War. 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

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