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