Step (air base)

Step
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Operator		Russian Air Force
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
	8,202	2,500	Concrete

Step (also Olovyannaya) is an air base in Chita, Russia located 14 km northwest of Yasnogorsk. It is a large air base with two revetment areas and numerous military fortifications. It is near an SS-11 missile field that was dismantled in the mid-1990s.

Units stationed at Step/Olovyannaya include:

6 APIB (6th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17 in the late 1980s; under 23rd Air Army (Transbaikal Military District).
58 APIB (58th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment) flying Su-17M3 and L-29 aircraft in the late 1980s, and receiving MiG-27 in the early 1990s.. It was under 23rd Air Army (Trans-Baikal).
266 OSHAP (266th Independent Shturmovik Aviation Regiment) flying Su-25 aircraft ^[1].

References

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

External links

http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/bap/6bap.htm
http://www.ww2.dk/new/air%20force/regiment/shap/58apib.htm