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