61st Air Army

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dates=1998-present
country=Russian Federation
branch=Aviation
type=military transport aviation
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size=9 regiments
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anniversaries=The 61st Air Army ("61 Vozdushnaya Armiya") of the Supreme High Command, is the main Military Transport Aviation unit of the Russian Air Force, with its headquarters being located in Moscow. The main aircraft it uses is the Il-76 "Candid" (about 220) and An-22 "Cocks"; or the medium transport An-12 "Cubs".

The Russian Air Force has begun 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 modernization programme, 12 Il-76 aircraft are due to be modernized before 2010, to Il-76MD-90 variant.

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*61st Air Army - Moscow
**610th Centre for Combat and Flight Personnel Training - HQs at Ivanovo Severny;
***Unknown Instructor Military Transport Air Squadron - Ivanovo - operates the Il-76;
**12th Military Transport Air Division - Tver (Migalovo);
***196th Military Transport Air Regiment - Tver - Il-76 in service;
***566th Military Transport Air Regiment - Seshcha - Il-76, An-124;
***76th Independent Military Transport Air Squadron - Tver - An-22;
**103rd Military Transport Air Regiment - Smolensk - Il-76;
**110th Military Transport Air Regiment - Krechevitsy - Il-76;
**117th Military Transport Air Regiment - Orenburg - Il-76, An-12;
**334th Military Transport Air Regiment - Pskov - Il-76;
**708th Military Transport Air Regiment - Taganrog - Il-76;
**78th Independent Military Transport Air Squadron - Klin-5 - operates An-26, An-12 and Tu-134;
**224th Air Detachment of Military Transport Aviation - Tver - An-124, Il-76MD;

References

*Piotr Butowsky. "Force Report:Russian Air Force", Air Forces Monthly, July 2007.