Sennoy is an air base in Saratov Oblast

Saratov Oblast

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, Russia

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 located 2 km south of Sennoy. It is a small training base, with training airspace about 5-10 km to the east.

Units on the base include 343 IIAP (343rd Instructor Interceptor Aviation Regiment), equipped with Su-17 aircraft in 1989-91 and MiG-23 and MiG-29E in the early 1990s . The unit has been reported to have disbanded in 1998. However, another report says it had as many as 54 MiG-29s by 2003.

The base also played host briefly to the 176th Fighter Aviation Regiment, flying MiG-29s, when it returned from Mikha Tskhakaya (Senaki

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), Georgia

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in 1992; it was quickly disbanded.