678th Guards Zabaykalskiy Red Banner Mixed Test Aviation Regiment

678-й гвардейский смешанный испытательный Забайкальский Краснознаменный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 30101

Activated 1938 in the Transbaykal Military District, as the 32nd Bomber Aviation Regiment, from the 31st Bomber Aviation Squadron.

23.11.42 renamed 32nd independent Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment.

17.6.43 renamed 99th independent Guards Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment.

8.59 renamed 678th Guards Mixed Test Aviation Regiment.

Main task was supporting the Sary Shagan test range.

Red Banner awarded 12.1.82.

Disbanded 1994.

Bases:

• Dzhida, Buryatskaya ASSR, ? - 10.59 [50 40 43N, 106 08 16E] - uncertain
• Priozersk, Dzhambul Oblast, 10.59 - 1994 [46 01 40N, 73 29 27E]

Aircraft:

• Tu-16, 1959-1989
• Il-28, 1959-1980's
• MiG-17, 1959-1980's
• MiG-19, 1959-1980's
• MiG-21F-13, 1965-1979
• MiG-21M, 1979-1994
• MiG-23M, 1981-1994
• Su-24M, 1987-1994
• Yak-28PP, 1970's-1994
• An-12PP, 1980-1994

Subordination:

• 60th Mixed Test Aviation Division, 1959 - 1994