Bagay-Baranovka (also given as Sennoy, Sennoe, or Sennoye) is an air base in
Saratov Oblast
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,
Russia
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located 2 km south of
Sennoy. It is a small training base, with training airspace about 5–10 km to the east and home to the
395th Independent Test Aviation Squadron 395th may refer to:
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of the
929th State Flight Test Centre named for V. P. Chkalov
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.
Units on the base include the 343rd Instructor Fighter Aviation Regiment (343 IIAP), equipped with
Sukhoi Su-17
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aircraft in 1989-91 and
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 and
MiG-29E in the early 1990s.
The unit has been reported to have disbanded in 1998.
However, another report says it had as many as 54 MiG-29s by 2003.
The base also played host briefly to the 176th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying MiG-29s, when it returned from Mikha Tskhakaya (
Senaki
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),
Georgia in 1992; it was quickly disbanded.
History
The airfield was created in the early 1940s and named after the nearby village of Baranivka, located on the banks of the Bagay River. In those years, the 8th Reserve Fighter Aviation Regiment was based at the aerodrome, specializing in personnel training for the units used the
Yak
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fighter aircraft, and also, flying tests with Yak aircraft produced by the
Saratov Aviation Plant
The Saratov Aviation Plant (Saratovskiy Aviatsionnyy Zavod, SAZ, Саратовский Авиационный Завод, САЗ) was a Russian/Soviet aircraft production facility, located in Saratov, Russia.
Aviation Plant №292 of MAP (Minist ...
. Among the units that the regiment successively set up was the
894th Fighter Aviation Regiment.
In 1955, the unit based at the aerodrome (established on March 17, 1944) was reorganized into the 101st Separate test aviation squadron (military unit 54817).
Until 1998, the 343rd instructor fighter air regiment was stationed at the
airfield
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(Su-17,
MiG-23,
MiG-29
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aircraft).
On July 1, 1993, the 395th separate air fighter squadron for the radiation, chemical and biological defense was established at the airfield based on merging of the 101st Separate Test Aviation Squadron (101st separate air fighter squadron) and the 220th (separate air fighter squadron) relocated from Aralsk (Kazakhstan).
Since 1993 until 2009, the commander of the 395th separate air fighter squadron was Colonel Plaskeev Grigory Semyonovich, a sniper pilot, Honored military pilot of Russia.
On November 1, 2009, the 395th separate air fighter squadron was transferred to the Air Force of the Russian Federation and reorganized into 929th test aviation squadron of the Main Flight Test Center of V.P. Chkalov.
References
External links
List of airfields in the Volga region of RussiaKotseba Grigory Andreevich
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Soviet Air Force bases
Russian Air Force bases
Soviet Air Defence Force bases
Buildings and structures in Saratov Oblast