It is an interceptor base with three groups of fan revetments and is home to 790 IAP (790th Fighter Aviation Regiment) flying 38 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 aircraft during the Cold War and Mikoyan MiG-31s through the 1990s.

The take-off field and taxiways were created from standard metal ladders, which can still be seen in the village – they are used both as tracks and as hedges.

When visiting Fidel Castro rocket division in the city Bologoe-4, he flew with the government delegation to the Hotilovo airfield .

Later, in the 70s, the town and the airfield itself were moved a few kilometers to the side, across the Shlin river, where it occupies its present position.

From April 2006 a cardinal reconstruction was made: the length was increased Runway from 2500 to 3000 meters and its width, the runway, apron covers and taxiways were completely replaced by concrete monolith; new buildings of the control tower (KDP), a launch command center (UPC) and several other buildings for various purposes were built.

After reconstruction, the airfield is capable of receiving any type of Russian military aircraft, including the strategic bomber Tupolev Tu-160.

Currently located at the airbase: Since 2007 the site is a joint-based airfield – in addition to military aviation, there is also a civilian base a Federal State Budgetary Institution "Russia" special flight squadron.

In August 1942 joined the 219th Bomber Aviation Division, which operated in the Transcaucasian, and since January 1943 in the North Caucasus Front.

The battalion began its formation in February 1953 at the station Kuzhenkino Bologovsky District Tver Region.