Aero Club

Aero Club is an organization engaged in aviation sports .

Synonyms: Aviation Sports Club (ASC) , Aviation Technical Sports Club (ATSK) .

As a rule, the flying club has, in addition to buildings and structures (training classes, workshops, gyms, etc.), a fleet of sports aircraft ( airplanes , helicopters , hang gliders , gliders ) and an airfield for training and demonstration flights of these aircraft, parachute jumps, etc. In Russia, most of the sport aerodromes are state-owned and run by ROSTO .

The main aircraft in Russian flying clubs are:

An-2 airplanes or Mi-8 helicopters - for landing (parachute dropping);
light aircraft of the Yak and Su families (and foreign-made airplanes), as well as light Mi-2 helicopters - for training and demonstration flights.

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History

The All-Russian Aero Club is an aviation military unit of the Russian Imperial Military Air Force .

Aviation Training Centers

In the Soviet period, in addition to flying clubs, there were training aviation centers (UAC), which had more advanced aircraft (in particular, training jet fighters L-29 , L-39 ), which allowed for a more in-depth training of pilots. However, in the 1990s, most UACs in Russia and the CIS countries were reorganized into flying clubs or disbanded altogether.

List of UAC of the USSR at the end of the 1980s:

Atkarsky (Mi-2)
Bogoduhovsky
Buzuluksky (Mi-2)
Vitebsk
Volgograd
Volchansky
Voronezh
Voroshilovgrad
Vyazemsky (L-29, L-39)
Vyaznikovsky (Mi-2)
Grozny (L-29, MiG-15)
Yegoryevsky (Mi-2)
Zaporizhia
Kazan (L-29)
Kaluga (MiG-15UTI, MiG-17, L-29) ^[1]
Karaganda (L-29)
Kemerovo
Kinel-Cherkassky (L-29, MiG-17)
Kostroma
Kuibyshev
Lipetsk
Novosibirsk
Omsk (L-29)
Ryazan
Saransky (L-29, MiG-15)
Saratov (An-2, Mi-2)
Stavropol
Sumy
Chelyabinsk
Ulyanovsk
Izhevsk Mi-2

Notes

↑ Kaluga Aviation Training Center DOSAAF USSR (Neopr.) (Not available link) . The appeal date was December 20, 2010. Archived March 30, 2010.

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UACs (topic at the aviation forum)

[1] Kaluga Aviation Training Center DOSAAF USSR (Neopr.) (Not available link) . The appeal date was December 20, 2010. Archived March 30, 2010.