679th Transport Test Aviation Regiment

679-й испытательный транспортный авиационный полк

Military Unit: 03085

Activated 10.56 in Podolsk (Ostafyevo), Moscow Oblast, as the 283rd independent Mixed Aviation Squadron.

3.58 renamed 679th independent Transport Test Aviation Regiment.

8.59 renamed 679th Transport Test Aviation Regiment.

Main task was supporting the Sary Shagan test range.

Disbanded 1994.

Bases:

• Ostafyevo, Moscow Oblast, 10.56 - 3.57 [55 30 31N, 37 30 23E]
• Priozersk, Dzhambul Oblast, 3.57 - 1994 [46 01 40N, 73 29 27E]

Aircraft:

• Il-14, 1956-?
• Li-2, 1956-?
• An-2, 1956-1994
• Yak-12, 1956-?
• Mi-4, 1956-1970's
• An-8
• An-12, ?-1994
• Mi-6, 1970-1994
• Mi-8, 1972-1994
• An-24T, 1974-1994

Subordination:

• 10th State Scientific Research Test Range, 1957 - 1959
• 60th Mixed Test Aviation Division, 1959 - 1994