54th Guards Kerchenskiy Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment

54-й гвардейский истребительный Керченский Краснознаменный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 06931

Activated 1940 as the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

3.2.43 renamed 54th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

1960 transferred to the Air Defense Forces (PVO).

Disbanded 2002 - absorbed by the 3958th Aviation Base.

Bases:

• Guryevsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, 5.45 - 8.45 [54 47 15N, 20 37 10E]

• Vainode, Latvian SSR, 8.45 - 1992 [56 24 27N, 21 53 19E]

• Savostleyka, Gorkiy Oblast, 1992 - 2002 [55 26 32N, 42 18 35E]

Aircraft:

• I-153, 1940-1941

• Yak-1, 1941-1943

• Yak-9, 1943-1944

• R-39, 1944-1946

• R-63, 1946-1949

• MiG-15, 1949-1956

• MiG-17, 1956?-1967

• Su-15, 1967-1970's

• Su-15TM, 1970's-1987

• Su-27, 1987-2002

• MiG-31, 1994-2002

Inventory:

• 11.90: 38 Su-27 [CFE treaty data exchange]

• 1.1.2000: 39 Su-27 and 8 MiG-31 [CFE treaty data exchange]

Subordinated:

• 220th Fighter Aviation Division, 8.42 - 2.43

• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 2.43 - 1960

• 27th Air Defense Corps, 1960-12.77

• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 12.77 - 5.86

• 27th Air Defense Corps, 5.86 - 1992

• 148th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel PVO, 1992 - 2001

• 4th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel, 2001 - 2002