515th Pomeranskiy order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Fighter Aviation Regiment

515-й истребительный Померанский ордена Богдана Хмельницкого авиационный полк

Military Unit: 49712

Activated 6.6.41 as the 12th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

20.9.41 renamed 515th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Disbanded 8.89.

Bases:

• ?, Germany, 1945 - 1.46

• Elstal, Germany, 1.46 - 8.49 [52 31 43N, 12 59 24E]

• Peenemünde, Germany, 9.47 - 1951 [54 09 23N, 13 46 27E]

• Damgarten, Germany, 1951 - 9.52 [54 15 49N, 12 26 35E]

• Wittstock, Germany, 9.52 - 10.52 [53 12 05N, 12 31 23E]

• Cherson, Cherson Oblast, 10.52 - 12.61 [46 40 37N, 32 30 26N] - also reported at Nikolayev, Nikolayev Oblast

• Sármellék, Hungary, 21.12.61 - 15.6.63 [46 41 15N, 17 09 34N]

• Tököl, Hungary, 15.6.63 - 20.8.68 [47 20 46N, 18 58 49E]

• Brno, Czechoslovakia, 20.8.68 - 25.10.68 [49 09 07N, 16 41 45E]

• Tököl, Hungary, 25.10.68 - 27.5.86 [47 20 46N, 18 58 49E]

• Kiskunlacháza, Hungary, 27.5.86 - early 1987 [47 10 40N, 19 04 24E]

• Mezokövesd-Klementina, Hungary, early 1987 - 27.8.87 [47 48 55N, 20 38 23E]

• Tököl, Hungary, 27.8.87 - 4.8.89 [47 20 46N, 18 58 49E]

Aircraft:

• I-16, 1941-1941

• I-153, 1941-1941

• Yak-1, 1941-1943

• Yak-7, 1942-1944

• Yak-9, 1944-1949

• Yak-3, 1945-1947

• MiG-15, 1949-1955

• MiG-17F, 1955-1962

• MiG-21F-13, 1962-1965

• MiG-21PF, 1964-1969

• MiG-21PFM, 1968-1970's

• MiG-21SMT, 1972-1982

• MiG-21bis, 1982-1988

• MiG-29, 12.87-1989

Subordinated:

• 294th Fighter Aviation Division, 7.43 - 2.44

• 193rd Fighter Aviation Division, 2.44 - 12.45

• 278th Fighter Aviation Division, 12.45 - 1.49

• 263rd Fighter Aviation Division, 1.49 - 9.52

• 145th Fighter Aviation Division, 9.52 - 6.61

• 48th Air Army, 6.61 - 12.61

• 195th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 12.61 - 4.68

• 11th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 4.68 - 8.89