[2][3] In 1960 it was a Soviet Air Defence Forces base, with the 304th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO flying Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17s; the regiment's fate is unknown following the parent 297th Fighter Aviation Division PVO's deactivation in 1960.

[4] An AirForces Monthly (AFM) article in January 1997, written following a visit to the airfield, said that it had housed a DOSAAF training regiment up until about 1980, flying some 80 MiG-17s and two Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTIs.

When AFM visited, all the now-ROSTO aircraft, roughly 40 L-29s and 30 L-39Cs, were parked in a small area of the airfield, as there were no hangars.

The facility at the time was offering sightseeing and proficiency flights to the paying general public in these aircraft in order to make ends meet.

440 OVP crewmembers and families, the magazine said, had been housed in newly built homes paid for by the German government.