12th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO

12-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный полк ПВО

Military Unit: 35470

Activated 11.40 in Klin, Moscow Oblast, as the 120th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.

7.3.42 renamed 12th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.

Disbanded 13.9.61.

Bases:

• Klin, Moscow Oblast, 1945 - 1948 [56 21 59N, 36 44 11E]
• Ivanovo-West, Ivanovo Oblast, 1948 - 1961 [56 59 55N, 40 51 50E] - no traces left today

Aircraft:

• I-153, 11.40-1942
• MiG-3, 9.41-1942
• Yak-7b, 9.42-1945
• Yak-1, 1.43-1944
• Yak-9, 1945-1949
• MiG-15, 1949-1954
• MiG-17, 1954-1961

Subordination:

• 317th Fighter Aviation Division PVO, 2.45 - 6.46
• 6th Fighter Aviation Corps PVO, 6.46 - 8.49
• 94th Fighter Aviation Division PVO, 8.49 - 1961