226th Guards Stalingradsko-Katovitskiy Red Banner Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment

226-й гвардейский тяжелый бомбардировочный Сталинградско-Катовицкий Краснознаменный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 00000

Activated 5.40 as the 93rd Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment.

21.8.41 renamed 98th Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment.

27.3.42 renamed 752nd Aviation Regiment Long-Range.

26.3.43 renamed 10th Guards Aviation Regiment Long-Range.

26.12.44 renamed 226th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment.

1949 renamed 226th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment.

8.69 renamed 226th independent Aviation Regiment for Electronic Warfare.

Disbanded 5.86.

Bases:

• Poltava, Poltava Oblast, 1945 - 1986 [49 37 34N, 34 29 14E]

Aircraft:

• DB-3F, 1940-1942

• Il-4, 1942-1949

• Tu-4, 1949-1955

• Tu-16, 1955-1967

• Tu-16K, 1967-1969

• Tu-16E/P, 1969-1986

Subordinated:

• 18th Aviation Division, 1940 - 1941

• 52nd Long-Range Bomber Aviation Division, 8.41 - 3.42

• 24th Aviation Division Long-Range, 3.42 - 3.43

• 3rd Guards Aviation Division Long-Range, 3.43 - 12.44

• 13th Guards Bomber Aviation Division, 12.44 - 1949

• 13th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, 1949 - 8.69

• 2nd independent Heavy Bomber Aviation Corps, 8.69 - 1980

• 43rd Air Army VGK, 1980 - 5.86