528th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO

528-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО

Military Unit: 65338

Activated 1.9.41 in Mirnaya, Primorskiy Kray, as the 528th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

1949(?) transferred to the Air Defence Forces, and renamed 528th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.

Disbanded 1.10.94.

Bases:

• Smirnykh, Sakhalin Oblast, 1945 - 1994 [49 44 18N, 142 51 26E]

Aircraft:

• I-16, 9.41-1942
• I-153, 9.41-1942
• Yak-7b, 6.42-1944
• Yak-9D, 4.44-1945
• Yak-9M/T, 1.45-1945
• Yak-9U, 4.45-1945
• Yak-3, 6.45-1947
• La-7, 1947-1951
• MiG-15, 1951-1955
• MiG-17, 1955-1967
• Yak-25M, 1957-1967 [one AE only]
• Yak-28P, 1967-1981
• MiG-23ML, 1981-1994

Subordination:

• 29th Fighter Aviation Division, 1945 - 1949
• 000 Fighter Aviation Division PVO, 1949 - 1960
• 24th Air Defence Division, 1960 - 4.80
• 40th Fighter Aviation Division, 4.80 - 4.86
• 24th Air Defence Division, 4.86 - 1990
• 72nd Air Defence Corps, 1990 - 1.10.94