289th Nikopolskaya Red Banner Bomber Aviation Division

289-я бомбардировочная Никопольская Краснознаменная авиационная дивизия

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 4.8.42 as the 289th Assault Aviation Division.

Organisation 5.45 :

• 232nd Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-10

• 686th Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-10

• 947th Assault Aviation Regiment with Il-10

29.4.56 renamed 289th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division (289th IBAD, from 11.76 289th ADIB).

The 686th Assault Aviation Regiment were probably disbanded in 1956.

Organisation 1957:

• 806th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Lutsk, Volynsk Oblast) with MiG-17

• 807th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Brody, Lvov Oblast) with MiG-17

• 947th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Dubna, Rovno Oblast) with MiG-15

Organisation 1980:

• 69th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Ovruch, Zhitomir Oblast) with Su-17M3

• 236th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Chortkov, Ternopol Oblast) with MiG-23BM

• 806th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (Lutsk, Volynsk Oblast) with Su-17M2

1988 renamed 289th Bomber Aviation Division.

Organisation 1990:

• 69th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Ovruch, Zhitomir Oblast) with Su-24M

• 806th Bomber Aviation Regiment (Lutsk, Volynsk Oblast) with Su-24M

1.1.92 taken over by Ukraine.

Bases:

• Lutsk, Volynsk Oblast, 1945 - 1992 [50 47 18N, 25 20 59E]

Subordinated:

• 8th Air Army, 8.42 - 3.43

• 10th Mixed Aviation Corps, 3.43 - 7.43

• 7th Assault Aviation Corps, 7.43 - 1.49

• 68th Assault Aviation Corps, 1.49 - 4.56

• 57th Air Army, 4.56 - 4.68

• 14th Air Army, 4.68 - 1980

• VVS Carpathian Military District, 1980 - 1988

• 14th Air Army, 1988 - 1992