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The '18th Guards
Taganrogskaya Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Military-Transport Aviation Division' was Military Unit no. 18380. It was activated in June 1942 from the 4th Reserve Air Group, as the 270th Bomber Aviation Division. On 23.10.43 it was renamed 6th Guards Bomber Aviation
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332:. The Russian Air Force began in 2002 to upgrade its Il-76MD transport aircraft, but this is a slow process, only two aircraft being modernized in 2005. According to the modernisation programme, 12 Il-76 aircraft are due to be modernised before 2010, to the Il-76MD-90 variant.
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Military-Transport Aviation Division. In April 1966 finally it was renamed 18th Guards Military-Transport Aviation Division.
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In 1988 the VTA included six separate regiments (194th Guards
Bryanskiy Red Banner Military-Transport Aviation Regiment im. N.F. Gastello at
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554:144th Airborne Early Warning Aviation Regiment -
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956:List of Russian Air Force aircraft
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573:- Il-76MD, MD-90A & Il-78
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632:Division. At the end of the
45:Military Transport Aviation
33:Military Transport Aviation
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175:Leningrad Military District
102:Military transport aircraft
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325:; or the medium transport
842:http://www.ww2.dk/new/air
155:61 Vozdushnaya Armiya VGK
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112:9 regiments
1250:Categories
815:2 November
675:References
596:Orenburg-2
270:Chkalovsky
258:Kryvyi Rih
248:(VTAD) at
220:, May 1996
965:Personnel
949:Equipment
925:Regiments
765:see also
620:- Il-76MD
535:Structure
302:Kėdainiai
262:Melitopol
238:Kirovakan
218:Kapchagay
192:from the
190:Ural-4320
104:formation
59:1998–2009
57:1955–1998
852:See also
450:Orenburg
294:Shaulyai
286:Migalovo
266:Dzhankoy
151:Air Army
578:Seshcha
526:Il-76MD
400:Seshcha
304:in the
250:Vitebsk
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226:Fergana
196:at the
169:History
135:Russian
66:Country
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522:An-124
515:Tu-134
412:An-124
353:Moscow
320:An-22
316:Candid
242:et al.
163:Moscow
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