Units and Formations of Sfr Yugoslav Air Force - Regiments of Sfr Yugoslav Air Force, Squadrons of Sfr Yugoslav Air Force (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Regiments of Sfr Yugoslav Air Force, Squadrons of Sfr Yugoslav Air Force, 252nd Mixed Aviation Squadron, List of Sfr Yugoslav Air Force Squadrons, List of Sfr Yugoslav Air Force Regiments and Brigades, 701st Aviation Brigade, 5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment, 1st Air Reconnaissance Regiment, 7th Air Reconnaissance Regiment, 3rd Air Reconnaissance Regiment, 322nd Signal Regiment. Excerpt: The 252nd Mixed Aviation Squadron is a squadron of the Serbian Air Force. It was formed in 1967 as 525th Training Squadron of Yugoslav Air Force. Based at Batajnica, the 252nd Mixed Aviation Squadron falls under the 204th Air Base. The main tasks of 252nd Mixed Aviation Squadron are training, aerial firing support to ground troops and pulling the targets for air defense training. The 525th Training Squadron was formed on July 17, 1967, at Batajnica Air Base. The first squadron commander was Major Aleksandar Veselinovic. Squadron was equipped with four Republic F-84G Thunderjets, one training TV-2 and ten Kurir liaison aircraft. The main task of squadron was flight training of pilots from Yugoslav Air Force Command, Military Academy, Area flight control and General Inspection of Yugoslav People's Army. By the order of Yugoslav Air Force Command, the squadron was also transporting messengers. Because the aircraft of the 525th Squadron were old and partly withdrawn, some of flight and maintenance personnel were sent to Zemunik Air Base for retraining for new aircraft type - G-2 Galeb. The retraining was finished in about 20 days, and personnel returned to Batajnica with four new Galeb aircraft. So after January 1968 the squadron comprised two reinforced flights, one with G-2 and one with Kurir aircraft. In the same year the squadron got a new task, pulling the... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25131894