73rd Guards Stalingradsko-Venskiy Red Banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy Fighter Aviation Regiment

73-й гвардейский истребительный Сталинградско-Венский Краснознаменный ордена Богдана Хмельницкого авиационный полк

Military Unit: 35433; from 10.51: 57953

Activated 6.41 in Moscow region as the 296th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

18.3.43 renamed 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

21.8.68 to 29.8.68 deployed to (?), Czechoslovakia.

12.94 to 7.95 took part in the first Chechen war.

Disbanded 5.98.

Bases:

• Cejkovice, Czechoslovakia, 5.45 - 16.8.45
• Tiraspol, Moldovian SSR, 17.8.45 - 10.51 [46 52 05N, 29 35 21E]
• Köthen, Germany, 23.10.51 - 5.91 [51 43 24N, 11 57 47E] - returned home via Falkenberg
• Shaikovka, Kaluga Oblast, 5.91 - 1998 [54 13 31N, 34 22 20E]

Aircraft:

• I-16, 6.41-9.41
• MiG-3, 7.41-10.41
• Yak-1, 2.42-5.45
• Yak-7, 7.42-2.44
• Yak-9, 4.44-1946
• P-63 Kingcobra, 4.46-1951
• MiG-15, 16.11.51-1954
• MiG-17F/PF, 1954-1963
• MiG-21PF, 1963-1968
• MiG-21PFM, 1966-1968
• MiG-21PFMA, 1968-1974
• MiG-23M, 1974-1984
• MiG-23ML, 1984-1987
• MiG-29, 1987-1998

Inventory:

• 1964 with 24 MiG-21PF
• 1990 with 37 MiG-29 and 4 MiG-23U [CFE treaty data exchange]

Subordination:

• 6th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 3.43 - 24.3.60
• 126th Fighter Aviation Division, 24.3.60 - 5.91
• VVS Moscow Military District, 5.91 - 1998