Domna

Domna
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type		Military
Operator		Russian Air Force
Location		Chita
Elevation AMSL		2,280 ft / 695 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12/30	8,202	2,500	Concrete

Domna is a Russian Air Force base in Chita, Russia located 27 km southwest of Chita. It is a large, hardened facility with six areas of revetments probably holding 50 fighter aircraft. MiG-23 aircraft from Domna were deployed to Shindand, Afghanistan in the late 1980s.

Units stationed at Domna include:

733 BAP (733rd Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft in the early 1990s.
120 BAP (120th Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-29 aircraft in the 1990s through 2000s ^[1].
125 Gv ORAP (125th Guards Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3R in the late 1980s and as many as 26 Su-24MR aircraft around 1990.
114 BAP (114th Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-24 aircraft; decommissioned around 1992.

Domna means "blast furnace" in Russian.

References

^ Butowski, Pyotr (2004). Air Power Analysis: Russian Federation. AIRtime Publishing, Inc.