301st Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO

301-й истребительный авиационный полк ПВО

Military Unit: 65393

Activated 25.11.40 in Zhigareva (Birofeld), Yevreyskaya Autonomous Oblast, as the 301st Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Deployed to Smirnykh, Sakhalin Oblast (49 44 22N, 142 51 25E) in 1972 for three months, when Kalinka airfield was being modernized.

1957 renamed 301st Fighter Aviation Division PVO.

Disbanded 1994.

Bases:

• Garovka, Khabarovsk Kray, 11.45 - 7.46 [48 23 48N, 135 13 23E]
• Kuybyshev-East, Amur Oblast, 7.46 - 6.48 [50 53 37N, 128 28 28E]
• Kalinka, Khabarovsk Kray, 6.48 - 1994 [48 24 49N, 135 24 58E]

Aircraft:

• I-15bis, 11.40-1943
• I-16, 11.40-1944
• Yak-9, 12.44-1946
• Yak-9U, 9.46-1948
• Yak-11, 1948-1953
• P-63 Kingcobra, 1953-1953
• MiG-15, 3.53-1955
• MiG-17, 9.53-1962
• Su-9, 2.62-1976
• MiG-23M/MLD, 1976-1994

Subordination:

• 254th Fighter Aviation Division, 7.42 - 1957
• 254th Fighter Aviation Division PVO, 1957 - 1960
• 8th Air Defence Corps, 1960 - 1980
• 28th Fighter Aviation Division, 1980 - 1986
• 8th Air Defence Corps, 1986 - 1994