53rd Guards Stalingradskiy orders of Lenin and Aleksandr Nevskiy Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment

53-й гвардейский Сталинградский орденов Ленина и Александра Невского авиационный полк истребителей бомбардировщиков

Military Unit: 06935

Activated 10.41 as the 512th Fighter Aviation Regiment.

3.2.43 renamed 53rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

1986 renamed 53rd independent Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

1989 renamed 53rd Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment.

Disbanded 1993, aircraft flown to depot at Tambov.

Bases:

• Guryevsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, 5.45 - 8.45 [54 47 15N, 20 37 10E]
• Siauliai, Lithuanian SSR, 8.45 - 1993 [55 53 36N, 23 23 45E]

Aircraft:

• LaGG-3, 1941-1942
• Yak-1, 1942-1943
• Yak-9, 1943-1944
• P-39 Aircobra, 1944-1946
• P-63 Kingcobra, 1946-1949
• La-9, 7.49 - 12.50
• MiG-15, 11.50-5.53
• MiG-17, 2.53-1958
• Yak-25M, 7.55 - 1973
• MiG-19, 1958 -1973
• MiG-23M, 1973-1985
• MiG-29, 1985-1989
• MiG-27K, 1989-1993
• MiG-27D, 1993
• Mi-23UM, 1989-1993

Inventory:

• 11.90: 35 MiG-27 and 11 MiG-23UM [CFE treaty data exchange]

Subordination:

• 220th Fighter Aviation Division, 7.42 - 2.43
• 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 2.43 - 1986
• VVS Baltic Military District, 1986 - 1988
• 15th Air Army, 1988 - 1989
• 39th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division, 1989 - 1993