Dolinsk-Sokol

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Dolinsk-Sokol

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Summary
Airport type		military
Operator		Russian Air Force
Serves		Dolinsk
Elevation AMSL		95 ft (29 m)
Coordinates		47°15′42″N, 142°46′6″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
	8202	2500	Concrete

For the regional civilian airport at Magadan, Russia see Sokol Airport.

Dolinsk-Sokol (appearing in various forms as Sokol, Dolinsk-Sokol, Dolinsk Sokol, Solok [sic]) is a military air base in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia located 8 km south of Dolinsk. It is a small base with no hardened areas. It existed before June 1966 according to declassified KH-7 satellite images. Its chief operating unit was 365 IAP (365th Interceptor Aviation Regiment), flying the Su-15, MiG-23, and Su-27 during its 40 years of tenure ^[1]. In the 1980s it received the MiG-31 ^[2]. It is also listed as being home to 361 IIVP (361st Instruction Test Helicopter Regiment) flying Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters ^[3].

Dolinsk-Sokol is famous for being home to the Sukhoi Su-15 that shot down Korean Air Flight 007 in September 1983. At that time, base commander was General Anatoli Kornukov, who later become Commander of the Russian Air Force.^{[citation needed]} At the time of the shootdown, Kornukov apparently ordered the shootdown to prevent KAL 007 from exitting Sakhalin airspace.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

^ Aviatsiya PVO. Aviabaza KPOI..
^ Mason, R. A. (1986). Aircraft, Strategy and Operations of the Soviet Air Force. Jane's Publishing Company Limited. 0710603738.
^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.