20th Guards Red Banner Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment

20-й гвардейский Краснознаменный авиационный полк истребителей бомбардировщиков

Military Unit: 59554

Activated 12.39 as the 147th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

4.4.42 renamed 20th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

1961 renamed 20th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (IBAP, from 11.76 APIB).

1994 absorbed the 953rd Bomber Aviation Regiment, and was renamed 20th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment.

Disbanded 6.98.

Bases:

• Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast(?), 1946? - 10.53 [67 59 20N, 33 00 58E] - uncertain

• Damgarten, Germany, 10.53 - 12.53 [54 15 50N, 12 26 30E]

• Parchim, Germany, 12.53 - 14.10.70 [53 25 43N, 11 46 55E]

• Templin, Germany, 14.10.70 - 5.4.94 [53 01 50N, 13 32 32E]

• Kamenka, Penza Oblast, 4.94 - 6.98 [53 12 20N, 44 03 53E]

Aircraft:

• I-153/16/15bis, 1939-1941

• MiG-3, 1941-1942

• P-40 Tomahawk, 1.42-1943

• P-39 Aircobra, 8.43 - 1946

• Yak-9, 1945-1952

• MiG-15, 1952-1956

• MiG-17F/PF, 1955-1967 [possibly a few to 1973]

• Su-7B/BM, 1964 - 1978

• Su-17M, 2.74 - 1981 [ one of the first units to get the Su-17]

• Su-17M2, 1976 - 1981

• Su-17M3, 5.81 - 1991

• Su-17M4, 4.87 - 1994 [1994 to depot at Taganrog, Rostov Oblast]

• Su-24M, 4.94-6.98 [1994 from the 953rd BAP; 1998 to Lebyazhe, Volgograd Oblast]

Inventory:

• 1964 with 24 MiG-17 and 12 Su-7

• 1965 with 36 Su-7 and 12 MiG-17

• 1990 with 39 Su-17M4 [CFE treaty data exchange]

Subordinated:

• 258th Fighter Aviation Division, 11.42 - 2.43

• 258th Mixed Aviation Division, 2.43 - 8.43

• 1st Guards Mixed Aviation Division, 8.43 - 11.44

• 16th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 11.44 - 1961

• 125th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division, 1961 - 7.93

• 16th Air Army, 7.93 - 4.94

• VVS Volga-Ural Military District, 4.94 - 6.98