166th Guards Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO
166-й гвардейский истребительный Краснознаменный авиационный полк ПВО
Military Unit: 10227
Activated 1941 as the 241st Assault Aviation Regiment.
5.2.44 renamed 166th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment.
1956 renamed 166th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.
1983 renamed 166th Guards Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment.
12.88 renamed 166th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.
Disbanded 3.1.93.
Bases:
?, Yugoslavia, 1945 - 8.45
Kalinino (Vorontsovka), Armenian SSR, 8.45 - 1947 [41 06 04N, 44 13 40E]
Kopitnari, Georgian SSR, 1947 - 4.54 [42 10 37N, 42 29 00E]
Marneuli (Sandar), Georgian SSR, 4.54 - 9.85 [41 27 39N, 44 47 01E]
Bagram, Afghanistan, 18.9.85 - 29.11.86 [34 56 47N, 69 15 44E]
Marneuli (Sandar), Georgian SSR, 11.86 - 1.93 [41 27 39N, 44 47 01E]
Aircraft:
I-153, 1941-1941
Il-2, 1941-1945 [to Yugoslavia before returning home]
Il-10, 1945-1955
MiG-15, 1955-1960
MiG-17, 1960-1970
Su-15, 1970-1983
Su-17M3, 1983-1988
Su-15TM, 2.89 - 1.93
Inventory:
11.90: 40 Su-15TM [CFE treaty data exchange]
Subordinated:
10th Guards Assault Aviation Division, 2.44 - 1956
118th Guards Fighter Aviation Division, 1956 - 6.58
Transcaucasian Air Defence Corps, 6.58 - 4.60
14th Air Defence Corps, 4.60 - 5.80
VVS Transcaucasian Military District, 15.5.80 - 10.84
36th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division, 10.84 - 9.85
VVS 40th Combined Arms Army, 9.85 - 11.86
VVS Transcaucasian Military District, 11.86 - 5.88
34th Air Army, 5.88 - 12.88
14th Air Defence Corps, 12.88 - 1.93