444th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment

444-й тяжелый бомбардировочный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 65350

Activated 1941(?) as the 444th Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment.

1946 renamed 444th Bomber Aviation Regiment.

1951 renamed 444th Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment.

1984 visited Choybalsan, Mongolia [48 08 07N, 114 38 53E].

29.1.97 absorbed by the 132nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment.

Bases:

• Khanko-2 (Hamsung), North Korea, 9.45 - 7.48 [39 47 24N, 127 32 08E]

• Pozdeevka, Amur Oblast, 7.48 - 1953 [50 34 01N, 128 51 09E]

• Vozdvizhenka, Primorskiy Kray, 1953 - 1.97 [43 54 30N, 131 55 30E]

Aircraft:

• Il-4, 1942-1951

• B-25, 6.51-1952

• Tu-4, 9.51-1957

• Tu-16, 10.56-1991

• Tu-22, 1967-5.68 (5 delivered)

• Tu-16K, 1975-1991 [2 squadrons with Tu-16K, and the third squadron with Tu-16 elint versions]

• Tu-22M3, 2.91-1997

Subordinated:

• 55th Bomber Aviation Division, 1941 - 1951

• 55th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, 1951 - 1994