Ilyushin Il-2 - Former Military Operators

Former Military Operators

Bulgaria
  • Bulgarian Air Force - received 120 Il-2 and 10 training Il-2U in 1945. The type was operated between 1945 and 1954.
Hungary
  • Hungarian Air Force - received an unknown number of aircraft. The type was operated from 1945 to 1952.
Mongolia
  • Mongolian People's Army Aviation - received 71 Il-2 in 1945. The type was operated between 1945 and 1954
Czechoslovakia
  • Czechoslovakian Air Force - received 33 Il-2 and 2 training Il-2U aircraft. This type was operated between 1944 and 1949.
Poland
  • Air Force of the Polish Army - (after 1947 Polish Air Force) received about 230 Il-2 aircraft between 1944 and 1946. All were retired in 1949.
Soviet Union
  • Soviet Air Force
  • Soviet Naval Aviation
Yugoslavia
  • SFR Yugoslav Air Force - received 213 aircraft in Il-2M3 and UIl-2 versions and used them until 1954. Used by:
    • 421st Assault Aviation Regiment (1944–1948)
    • 554th Assault Aviation Regiment (1945–1948)
    • 422nd Assault Aviation Regiment (1944–1948)
    • 423rd Assault Aviation Regiment (1944–1948)
    • 3rd Training Aviation Regiment (1945–1948)
    • 81st Assault Aviation Regiment (1948–1953)
    • 96th Assault Aviation Regiment (1948–1954)
    • 107th Assault Aviation Regiment (1948–1953)
    • 111st Assault Aviation Regiment (1948–1952)
    • 185th Mixed Aviation Regiment (1949–1952)

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