22nd Guards Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO

22-й гвардейский истребительный Краснознаменный авиационный полк ПВО

Military Unit: 23485

Activated 6.38 as the 1st Fighter Aviation Regiment VVS VMF, from the 9th and 44th independent Fighter Aviation Squadrons.

11.39 renamed 6th Fighter Aviation Regiment VVS VMF.

26.9.45 renamed 22nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment VVS VMF.

1.2.57 transferred to the Air Defence Forces, and renamed 22nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO.

22.2.68 awarded the Red Banner.

1.12.09 renamed 6989th Guards Aviation Base.

Bases:

• Tsentralnaya Uglovaya, Primorskiy Kray, 9.45 - today [43 20 57N, 132 03 29E]

Aircraft:

• La-7, 1944-1945

• P-63 Kingcobra, 1945-1952

• MiG-15, 1952-1954

• MiG-17, 1954-1957

• Yak-25M, 1956-1976 [one AE only]

• MiG-19, 1957-1963

• Su-9, 3.60-1976

• MiG-23M/ML, 1976-1994

• Su-27, 1994-today

Subordinated:

• 7th Fighter Aviation Division VVS VMF, 1943 - 1957

• 000 (7th?) Fighter Aviation Division PVO, 1957 - 1960

• 23rd Air Defence Corps, 1960 - 4.80

• 20th Fighter Aviation Division, 5.80 - 5.86

• 23rd Air Defence Corps, 5.86 - today