26th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment

26-й гвардейский бомбардировочный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 55743

Activated 1938 as the 26th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.

22.11.42 renamed 26th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.

1954 renamed 26th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

1961 renamed 26th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (IBAP, from 11.76 APIB).

Deployed to Pereyaslavka-2, Khabarovsk Kray [47 59 55N, 135 05 24E] in 1972 for three months, when Kalinka airfield was being modernized.

1979 renamed 26th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment.

Disbanded 1988.

Bases:

• Siverskaya (Siverskiy), Leningrad Oblast, 1944 - 1953 [59 21 29N, 30 02 05E]

• Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, 1953 - 1968 [59 33 23N, 30 05 32E]

• 10th Uchastok (Kalinka), Khabarovsk Kray, 1968 - 1988 [48 24 49N, 135 24 58E]

Aircraft:

• I-153, 1938-1941

• I-16, 1941-1942

• MiG-3, 1941-1943

• Yak-1, 1941-1943

• Hurricane, 1943-1944

• Spitfire, 1944-1948?

• Yak-9, 1944-1953

• MiG-15, 1953-1957

• MiG-17, 1957-1968

• Su-7, 1968-1972

• Su-17, 1972-1979

• Su-24, 1979-1988

Subordinated:

• 2nd Guards Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, 1944 - 1948

• 41st Fighter Aviation Division PVO, 1949 - 1954

• 41st Fighter Aviation Division, 1954 - 1961

• 76th Air Army, 1961 - 1968

• 1st Air Army, 1968 - 1972

• 83rd Mixed Aviation Division, 1972 - 1980

• 83rd Bomber Aviation Division, 1980 - 1988