1st Air Army - Postwar

Postwar

After the end of the war, the army was reformed within the Soviet Air Forces and served in the Far Eastern Military District until 1998.

The army's order of battle c.1988 according to Vad777 was:

• HQ 1st Air Army (Khabarovsk)
  • 257th Mixed Aviation Regiment (Хабаровск): транспортные самолеты и вертолеты
• 33rd Хинганская Division of Fighter-Bombers (Переяславка):
  • 300th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers МиГ-27(Pereyaslavka-2, Khabarovsk Kray, 70 km south of Khabarovsk). Disbanded November 1989.
  • 302nd авиационный полк истребителей-бомбардировщиков (Переяславка): Су-17М4. Reequipped with Su-24 1990 and redesignated a Bomber Aviation Regiment.
• 303rd Смоленская Red Banner Aviation Division of Fighter-Bombers (Ussuriisk, Primorsky Krai)
  • 18th Guards Витебский дважды Краснознаменный ордена Суворова Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers (Galenki, 30 km north-west of Ussuriisk): MiG-27
  • 224th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers (Novoshakhtinsky under Ussuri): MiG-27. Disbanded 1992.
  • 523rd Orsha Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Fighter-Bomber Regiment (Vozdvizhenka under Ussuri): Su-17МЗ, М4. Disbanded October 1994.
• Regiments reporting directly to Army HQ included:
• 277th Mlavsky Red Bomber Aviation Regiment (Khurba under Komsomolsk-on-Amur): Su-24. (Holm: 83rd Bomber Aviation Division)
• 26th Guards Aviation Regiment Fighter-Bombers (10th Precinct/10-й участок, under Komsomolsk-on-Amur): Su-17.
• 299th Aviation Regiment of the fighter-bombers (Birofeld, Jewish Autonomous Oblast): Su-17.
• 293rd Aviation Regiment of the fighter-bombers (Vozzhaevka, Belogarsky District Amur Oblast): Su-17.
• Fighter Aviation Regiment (Orlovka, Amur Oblast): MiG-29. (Holm says this was the 404th, disbanded 2000-2001 with awards and banners to the 23 IAP.)
• 216th Fighter Aviation Regiment (Kalinovka, near Khabarovsk): Su-27. (disbanded May 1998)
• 187th Attack Aviation Regiment (Chernigovka, Primorsky Krai under g.Sibirtsevo): Su-25.
• 799th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment (Varfolomeyevka (village), Primorsky Krai, in the district of Arseniev): Su-24.

In 1989 the 1st Air Army disbanded two air division headquarters, в связи с чем имелся "излишний комплект" отдельных авиаполков, часть из которых расформировывалась.

The 1st Air Army was merged with the 11th Air Defence Army in 1998 to form the 11th Air Force and Air Defence Army.