176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment

176th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO
Active 1938–1960
Country Soviet Union
Branch Soviet Air Defense Forces
Type Fighter aviation regiment
Engagements

The 176th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO was a fighter regiment of the Soviet Air Defense Forces during World War II and the Cold War. The unit was disbanded in March 1960.

Formed on 22 March 1938 as the 19th Fighter Aviation Regiment, before being renamed as 176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment on 17 August 1944, finally renamed as 176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO in February 1952.

On 1 December 1951, over Sunchon, at least twenty MiG 15's from the 176th attacked a formation of fourteen Royal Australian Air Force No. 77 Squadron Meteors. Three Meteors were shot down.[1]

Aircraft operated

Aircraft operated by 176th.[2]
From To Aircraft Version
1938 1941 Polikarpov I-15 I-15bis
1938 1941 Polikarpov I-16
1938 1941 Polikarpov I-153
1941 1942 Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3
1942 1944 Lavochkin La-5
1944 1948 Lavochkin La-7
1948 1949 Lavochkin La-9
1948 1949 Lavochkin La-11
1949 1956 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
1954 1960 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

Citations

  1. ↑ Krylov; Tepsurkaev, Soviet MiG-15 Aces of the Korean War, pp. 48–49
  2. ↑ Michael Holm, 176th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, accessed 27 September 2018.

References

  • Krylov, Leonid; Tepsurkaev, Yuriy (2008). Soviet MiG-15 Aces of the Korean War. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-299-8.
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