Though it is built for fighter operations with 30 revetments, it has largely served the interceptor aircraft role.

Western intelligence services reported jet fighters operating from Afrikanda as early as 1953.

Ivanov, piloting I-15bis, shot down a German bomber in an air battle near the Afrikanod airfield, Heinkel He 111.

[6][full citation needed] In the future, the airfield was used by combat aircraft Karelian Front.

In 1993 from the airfield Rogachevo was translated 641st Guards Vilna Order Kutuzov Fighter Aviation Regiment.