789th Guards Chenstokhovskiy orders of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy and Aleksandr Nevskiy Fighter Aviation Regiment

789-й гвардейский истребительный Ченстоховский орденов Богдана Хмельницкого и Александра Невского авиационный полк

Military Unit: 40414

Activated 4.39 as the 42nd Fighter Aviation Regiment.

18.6.43 renamed 100th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

20.2.49 (directive 10.1.49) renamed 789th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

10.52 transferred to the VVS Baltic Fleet - reportedly transferred to the Northern Fleet in 3.58, but details are lacking.

Disbanded mid-1960.

Bases:

• Grossenhain, Germany, 8.5.45 - 18.5.45 [51 18 26N, 13 33 13E]
• Riesa-Canitz, Germany, 18.5.45 - 4.6.45 [51 18 11N, 13 13 43E]
• Absdorf, Austria, 4.6.45 - 24.7.46 [48 24 57N, 15 58 56E]
• Eisenstadt, Austria, 24.7.46 - 3.51 [47 47 56N, 16 33 41E]
• Papa, Hungary, 3.51 - 8.51 [47 21 45N, 17 29 51E]
• Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, 8.51 - 10.52 [47 50 16N, 16 13 17E]
• Nivenskoye, Kaliningrad Oblast, 10.52 - 1960 [54 33 46N, 20 36 07E]

Aircraft:

• I-153/16, 1939-1942
• Yak-1, 1942-1943
• P-39 Airacobra, 1943-1946
• P-63 Kingcobra, 1946-1951
• MiG-15, 3.51-1954
• MiG-17, 1954-1960

Subordination:

• 216th Fighter Aviation Division, 5.42 - 6.43
• 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 6.43 - 2.49
• 237th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 2.49 - 1960