871st Pomeranskiy Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment

871-й истребительный Померанский Краснознаменный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 49732, from 1.49: 35517

Activated 2.40 as the 149th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

10.1.49 renamed 871st Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Disbanded 1992.

Bases:

• Warnemünde, East Germany, 1945

• Kluczewo, Poland, 7.45 - 1964 [53 16 54N, 14 57 58E]

• Kolobrzheg, Poland, 1964 - 1.9.89 [54 11 59N, 15 41 05E]

• Brzheg, Poland, 1.9.89 - 10.6.91 [50 50 13N, 17 24 54E]

• Smolensk-North, 10.6.91 - 1992 [54 49 26N, 32 01 34E]

Aircraft:

• I-16/153, 1940-1941

• MiG-3, 1941-1942

• MiG-1?, 1942-1944

• Yak-9, 1944-1952

• MiG-15, 1952-1960?

• MiG-19SV, 1956-1965

• MiG-21PFM, 1965-1973

• MiG-23M, 1973-1990

• MiG-23MLA, 1974-1990

• MiG-23MLD, 1990-1992

Inventory:

• 11.90: 39 MiG-23MLD [CFE treaty data exchange]

Subordinated:

• 323rd Fighter Aviation Division, 9.43 - 6.44

• 215th Fighter Aviation Division, 6.44 - 7.44

• 323rd Fighter Aviation Division, 7.44 - 1.49

• 239th Fighter Aviation Division, 1.49 - 1992