page_title: 1st Guards Assault Aviation Corps
section_title: Formation
hierarchical_section_title: 1st Guards Assault Aviation Corps / Formation
caption_attribution_description: English: An Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik ground attack aircraft. Русский: Штурмовик Ил-2. Deutsch: Schlachtflugzeug IL-2
context_page_description: The 1st Guards Assault Aviation Corps was a military formation of the Red Air Force during the Second World War, and of the Soviet Air Force until 1949. It was then renamed the 60th Guards Assault Aviation Corps, and was active until its disbandment in 1956. Its primary aircraft was the Ilyushin Il-2 'Sturmovik'.
context_section_description: The 1st Assault Aviation Corps was formed by an NKO Order dated September 10, 1942, from the 2nd Fighter Aviation Army.
  Part of the order establishing the corps said:
  1. Establish and keep in reserve of the Supreme Command:
  b) 1st Assault Aviation Corps as part: Office of the Air Shtat No. 015/281, 121st Communications Battalion Shtat 015/215, 292nd, 290th and 266th Assault Aviation Divisions, each composed of three assault and one fighter aviation regiments with 32 aircraft each.
  1st Assault Aviation Corps stationed in Yurkino district, Dmitrov.
  3. Three squadrons are part of each of the fighter and assault aviation regiments, consisting of two flights with four aircraft and two aircraft for the squadron commander and commissar. The regimental headquarters have two aircraft for the use of the regimental commander and commissar.
  4. 1st and 2nd Fighter and the 1st Bomber Air Army - disband. Personnel and equipment used to staff the formed air corps.
  5. Air Corps to be included as part of the army ....
  11. Assign the following to the corps: as the commander of the 1st Assault Aviation Corps Major General of Aviation Vasily Georgyevich Ryazanov, as the commander of the 290th Assault Aviation Division Lieutenant Colonel Mironenko PI, as the commander of the 263rd Bomber Aviation Division Colonel Dobysh FI, as the commander of the 266th Assault Aviation Division Lieutenant Colonel Radyakina FG
caption: An Ilyushin Il-2 of the type flown by the corps
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