26th reserve fighter aviation regiment

• 40th Spare Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 26th reserve fighter aviation regiment

The 26th reserve fighter aviation regiment dates back to July 1938, when the 40th reserve aviation regiment was formed at the Kirovo airfield of the Kiev Special Military District (KOVO). As a result of the offensive of the fascist-German invaders, the 40th reserve aviation regiment was withdrawn to Georgia at the Sandar airfield (near Tbilisi) in August 1941 and was subordinate to the Air Force headquarters of the Transcaucasian Front .

In January 1942, the 40th reserve aviation regiment was renamed to the 26th reserve fighter aviation regiment on the basis of the NCO directive and became part of the 4th spare aviation brigade in Tbilisi, with the 31st aircraft factory re-deployed in evacuation (brigade commander Colonel Kretov )

The 26th reserve fighter aviation regiment trained marching regiments and individual crews:

• on LaGG-3 fighters - from December 1941 to mid-1944
• on Yak-3 fighters - since 1944
• on fighters of English and American manufacture, Bell R-39M / N / Q AeroCobra, Hurricane, Kittyhawk - from November 1943 to June 1945,

and also drove new fighters directly to the front into combat fighter aviation regiments. During the war, more than 700 fighter pilots were trained in the 26th reserve fighter aviation regiment, 30 marching combat regiments were trained and staffed, the regiment transferred more than 1000 new to the front into combat fighter aviation regiments fighter jets.

The 26th reserve fighter aviation regiment was disbanded in July 1946.

• Lieutenant Colonel Lagutin Petr Ivanovich, 07.42 - 03.45
• Chief of Staff Colonel Khmyrov

The process of retraining flight crews was typical: a regiment was withdrawn from the front that lost a large number of flight crews, it was replenished to full-time standards, pilots were retrained for a new material part. The regiment received new planes and again went to the front. Thus, the reserve regiment distributed planes arriving from factories and repair bases.

In order to gain combat experience, the command and instructors of the reserve aviation regiments were sent to the aviation regiments of the army.

• 68th "A" fighter aviation regiment (formed on 08/03/1942 on the I-16 , renamed the 975th IAP )
• 88th Fighter Aviation Regiment (12.21.1942 - 05.23.1943, LaGG-3 )
• 166th Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 149th Fighter Aviation Regiment (08/16/1942, reorganized, 12/20/1942 sent to the 8th Ziap )
• 246th Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 249th Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 267th Fighter Aviation Regiment (10/30/1942 - 02/12/1943, LaGG-3 , reorganized, Barchalo village )
• 269th Fighter Aviation Regiment (08/25/1942 - 10/23/1942, understaffed, LaGG-3 )
• 347th Fighter Aviation Regiment (from 08/15/1942 to 11/15/1942)
• 482nd Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 518th Fighter Aviation Regiment (from 03/03/1942 to 01/05/1943, reorganized)
• 743th Fighter Aviation Regiment (from March 17, 1943 to August 11, 1943, Hawker Hurricane )
• 805th Fighter Aviation Regiment (from 13.12.1942 to 07.14.1943, understaffed, LaGG-3 )
• 821st Fighter Aviation Regiment
• 863rd Fighter Aviation Regiment (from 12/14/1942 to 07/17/1943, understaffed, LaGG-3 )
• 926th Fighter Aviation Regiment (from 10/30/1942 to 03/28/1943, reorganized to state 015/284 and understaffed, LaGG-3 )
• 927th Fighter Aviation Regiment - staffed (09/09/1942 - 12/10/1942)
• 975th Fighter Aviation Regiment (renamed 08/21/1942 from 68th “A” IAP , I-16 )
• 976th Fighter Aviation Regiment (from 11/10/1942 to 01/12/1943, reorganized and sent to the 19th ziap of the Siberian Military District for retraining)

•   Pavlov Vasily Georgievich , deputy commander of the 26th reserve fighter regiment for the BCC. He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 3, 1953 for the courage and heroism shown in testing new aircraft. Gold Star No. 10866.
•   Gerbinsky Pavel Yakovlevich , instructor pilot of the 26th reserve fighter regiment. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of May 1, 1957 for the courage and heroism shown when testing new aircraft. Posthumously.
•   Korovushkin Nikolay Ivanovich , pilot instructor of the 26th reserve fighter regiment. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 9, 1957 for the courage and heroism shown in testing new aircraft.
•   Reshetnev Mikhail Fedorovich , aircraft mechanic of the 26th reserve fighter regiment. Academician, Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, general designer and general director of NPO Applied Mechanics was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of October 11, 1974 for outstanding services.

• Team of authors. List No. 12 of the aviation regiments of the Air Force of the Red Army, which were part of the Active Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. / Pokrovsky. - The Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff. - Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1960. - T. Appendix to the Directive of the General Staff of January 18, 1960 No. 170023. - 96 p.
• Anokhin V.A. Bykov M.Yu. All fighter aviation regiments of Stalin. The first complete encyclopedia. - Popular science publication. - Moscow: Yauza-press, 2014 .-- S. 921. - 944 p. - ISBN 978-5-9955-0707-9 .

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7. 26th Reserve Fighter Aviation Regiment