[1] The history of the airfield goes back to 1953–54, when the Training Center of the Aviation of the Air Defence Forces (Russian: Краснознамённый учебно-методический центр авиации ПВО) was moved to Savasleyka from Seyma (Volodarsk).

Savasleyka was home to 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (54 Gv IAP) with Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO: Flanker) aircraft in 1994 and today, as part of the 4th Aircrew Combat Training Centre at Lipetsk Air Base.

The 4th absorbed the previous 148 TsBP i PLS (Aircrew Combat Training and Retraining Centre) of the PVO (Air Defense) with Sukhoi Su-17 (NATO: Fitter), Su-27, MiG-31MLD, and Mil Mi-8 aircraft after 1998.

[citation needed] On 13 and 16 August 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the airbase was struck by Ukrainian drones, resulting in explosions and destruction of several aircraft and a fuel depot, with damage to several others.

[9][5] 19 February 1958 and an emergency landing of a passenger plane Tupolev Tu-104 (on-board number L5414, one of the first production Tu-104), which carried out a training flight on the route Novosibirsk – Sverdlovsk – Moscow.

When approaching Moscow Vnukovo airport, the crew reported a shortage of fuel to complete the flight and requested landing at the Dyagilevo airfield Ryazan Region).

With a decrease, the fuel reserves were exhausted, the engines stopped, and the plane made an emergency landing in the forest, not having reached 1.5 kilometers before the end of the runway.

The airfield directly under the crash site, where I ran out of the barracks of the 2nd regiment, was littered with a layer of small smoking debris.

In the middle of the strip, I remember the flight white helmet, and under it on the concrete – a scattering of blue plastic fragments of light-protective cover and inscription around the Nadtochiev earphone ...[citation needed] 30 September 1991 and the plane crashed MiG-31B under the command of Major Shapovalov S. A. and Pilot-Navigator Lieutenant Colonel M. V. Subbotin, performing a training flight before upcoming display of aviation technology.

The pilot collided at high speed with a thick birch (about 25–30 cm in diameter), which broke in half from a blow, the plane fell 20–30 meters.