[2] The base hosted the Russian Navy's 444th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel Naval Aviation.

[4] Briefly under the control of the 57th Maritime Torpedo Aviation Division Long-Range, it was subordinated directly to the Baltic Fleet in 1961.

In 1940, on the basis of the Directive of the NKO USSR 0/4104725 of July 25, 1940, the 158th Fighter Aviation Regiment was formed and was based at the Veretie airfield.

During the war years, the airfield was used by German aviation (judging by the archival photographs - auxiliary and military transport).

In addition to heavy regiments, the division included the 61st Separate Fighter Aviation Squadron of SPN SDK-5 aircraft (Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 SDK).

In July 1960, the 61st OIAE was reorganized into the 12th separate fighter squadron of SPN, without changing the place of deployment.

On April 13, 1961, in connection with the transformation of mine-torpedo aviation into naval rocket-carrying aircraft, on the basis of the Order of the USSR Ministry of Defense No.

At the same time, the regiment is preparing for overseas travel to Egypt to provide military assistance to the "brotherly people."

The command of the Soviet Navy decided to send a squadron of airplanes (ten cars) to the "hot spot" Tu-16KSR-2-11 from the 9th Guards.

In late October - early November 1971, Tu-16 aircraft were redeployed to Aswan, where the crews began to study the area of flights in new, unusual for northerners conditions.

By June 1972, 10 Egyptian crews were retrained to this rocket system, and in July they received an order to wind down the activities of the Soviet air group.

As part of the Air Force ARE of them was formed the 36th Aviation Squadron, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Rauf.

One of the reasons for disbanding the regiment was that it was armed with the KS missile system that was outdated by that time, and it was considered inexpedient to rearm it.

In 1980, the regiment was transferred to the airfield Veretie, where he worked until 1989, after which the 342nd ERA EW was disbanded, and its units were again returned to the 170th and 240th Guards.

In 1989, the Veretie garrison, after redeploying the 392nd ODRAP there, came under the authority of the SF air force and remained in their structure until 1993.

Naval Aviation of the Russian Federation was left without its own base for training and retraining of flight and engineering staff.

The command of the Navy Air Force was faced with the need to create a new Training Center already in Russia.

10.10.1993, the resolution of the Board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was adopted on the creation of a new Center for Naval Aviation.

The MSARP and the 392nd ODRAP were reorganized into the new 240th Guards Red Banner Sevastopol-Berlin mixed (instructor-research) aviation regiment of the Navy Air Force.

It is transferred to the newly formed " '46th separate transport Red Banner aviation regiment of the Navy (central subordination) at the airfield Ostafyevo.

Aircraft equipment (partially) was transferred to the newly formed 859th Center for Combat Training and Retraining of Naval Aviation flight personnel of the Navy in Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory.

The Red Banner Sevastopol-Berlin Avb Navy of the central subordination of the 2nd category based on the Ostafyevo airfield.

This formation was formed in the Russian Armed Forces for the first time, instead of the existing helicopter air bases of the second category.

At an altitude of 9900 meters, the leading aircraft, with the smoke of the right engine, with the left bank and an energetic decline, went out of sight of the slave.

A rescue plane at the crash site found two oil stains in the sea, floating debris, a LAS-5M-3 boat and personal belongings of crew members of the aft cockpit.

Before landing, an unauthorized demonstration passage was made over the airfield at near-sonic speed and ultra-low altitude.

17 July 2001, during celebrations in honor of AVMF Day, while performing a demonstration flight on an Sukhoi Su-33 plane, allegedly due to a pilot error, the Deputy Commander of the MA, Major General of the naval aviation, Hero RF Timur Avtandilovich Apakidze, died.