Aviation

Aviation, also known as "*Samolet Letit,*" is an elective program that Moscow Guards offers to students. The current Student Head of Department is Kursant Pavel Galkin-Rintala.

### Subdivisions

Air Traffic Control, Aeronautical, Aerospace, Airborne Studies, Air Artillery

### Vehicles Operated

Planes, Anti-Air, Helicopters

As the Flotilla operates 2 aircraft carriers, one that carries helicopters and one that carries planes, this opens up the opportunity for a special form of Samolet Letit (Sentoki-Do in Russian) to be hosted on the ships. As the two school ships are never found more than 10 km away from each other, they are usually always at hand in case of an incident.

Because of the extended safety between ships, and the general know-how of the students that take the pilot course, the school is generally authorized to host plane battles for their own, and for other schools use. They compete in international competition quite often, and have attended the Japanese Sentoki-Do league with it’s partnership with Pravda.

With authorization from the vessel’s command, any school can request for their Kuznetsov Class carrier to act as a mobile airfield for student programs such as SL.

Apart from the obvious WWII lineup, MGCS also fields helicopters in accommodation with students from UlySVU’s airborne courses.

Standard Aviation Company currently hosts a fleet of the following:

* 4x Yak-1 (Donated 2014)
	+ 2x Yak-1b
	+ 1x Yak-1 (Privately owned by the *Galkin* Family)
	+ 1x Yak-1 UTI-26 Trainer
* 2x Yak-7 (Donated 1978)
	+ 1 Yak-7
	+ 1 Yak-7b
* 2x Yak-9 (Donated 2005)
* 4x La-5FN (Donated 1950)
* 3x IL-2 (Donated 1985 to LNA)
	+ 2x IL-2M
	+ 1x IL-2T
* 1x IL-10 (Donated 2012)

## Captured Company

Operated similarly to the Captured Corps, Captured Company is a company of planes that did not originate in Russia, operated by the school. These planes are all authentic, and have no modifications to their airframes.

* 3x BF-109 (Captured 1943, 44, 45, donated in 1984)
	+ 1x 109 F4
	+ 1x 109 G6
	+ 1x 109 E4
* 1x Spitfire (Lend Lease, donated to Moscow Guards, 1972)
	+ 1x Mk IX
* 3 P-39 Airacobra (Lend Lease, donated in 1955)

## Airlift Squadron

As per the school's successful aviation program, they do field a squadron of planes and helicopters, meant for the safe transport of goods and other material that the Moscow Guards needs to transport quickly.

Though more frequent, the flights are likely never direct, unless the ship is close to the mainland.

This unit only fields modern aircraft, including the following:

* 2x Antonov An-12
* 2x Ka-50 Rotorcopter
* 3x Mi-24 Attack Helicopter

This unit is only operated by staff and senior students. Students must have at least 5 years of experience with aircraft in order to qualify for this unit.

## Jet Program

MGCS has a very limited jet program, unlike their land based counterparts. As this is a carrier school, there are quite a few students that attend the Naval Aviation program, and due to the nature of the program, must learn how to operate jets from earlier on. Much like the Airlift Squadron, this program is restricted to senior students only, and students must have their pilot's license as well as at least 200 flight hours.

The unit only fields the following:

* 5x Mikoyan MiG-21