5th Air Army - 1988 Soviet Structure

1988 Soviet Structure

  • Headquarters - Odessa
  • 29th Independent Training Regiment (Berdyansk) (Su-17) (disbanded 1996)
  • 90th Independent Assault Aviation Regiment (Artsyz) (Su-25) (disbanded 1989; directive issued 22.7.89, and all aircraft was transferred to Saki, Krymskaya Oblast.)
  • 190th Independent Fighter-Bomber Regiment (Kanatovo, Kirovograd Oblast)(MiG-27)(former 866 IAP, World War II)
  • 290th Independent Assault Aviation Regiment (Saki) (Su-25)
  • 642nd Guards Independent Fighter-Bomber Regiment (Voznesensk, Nikolayev Oblast)
  • 827th Independent Reconnaissance Regiment (Limanskoye)
  • 119th Fighter Aviation Division (Military Unit No. 06846) (Tiraspol, Moldovian SSR)
    • 86th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Markuleshty, Moldovian SSR) (MiG-29) (became part of Moldovan Armed Forces)
    • 161st Fighter Aviation Regiment (Limanskoye, Odessa Oblast) with MiG-29 and MiG-23
    • 684th Guards Orshanskiy Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment (Tiraspol) (MiG-23MLD)(disbanded 1989, after a flying accident in 7.88, which killed several civilians in Tiraspol. Former 133 Guards IAP)

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