[1] In the early 1990s the airbase became home to the 7th Bomber Aviation Regiment flying Sukhoi Su-24M aircraft.

[2] On February 13, 1992, shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, pilots from this airbase took six Su-24 airplanes to Russia.

To avoid detection by the air defense systems of Ukraine, they flew to Russia through Belarus.

The Ukraine Air Force's two-seat aircraft were often used for familiarization sorties and exchange backseat rides during exercise.

[7] In the late afternoon of 16 October 2018, while carrying out one of these single-aircraft familiarization flights, a Sukhoi Su-27UB1M (‘70 Blue’) crashed resulting in the death of the two pilots, Colonel Ivan Nikolayevich Petrenko, deputy commander of Eastern Air Command/Ukrainian Air Force, and Lt.