Test pilot of the company "Sukhoi" Hero of Russia Sergey Bogdan celebrates 50-year anniversary
ARMS-TASS. Today marks the 50 years of honored test pilot Colonel Sergei Bogdan. He was born in 1962 in the city of Volsk, Saratov region.
After graduating from high school, Sergei Bogdan entered the Borisoglebsk VVAUL, which he graduated with honors in 1983. Until 1987, he served in the Leningrad Military District on Su-17 aircraft, then, until 1990, in Mongolia. With the withdrawal of troops from this country, the regiment was transferred to the Navy and relocated to the village of Guards near Simferopol. In 1991, from the post of deputy. The commander of the squadron of a separate naval assault aviation regiment with the rank of major entered the Center for the Training of Test Pilots (TsPLI), in 1992 - at the Moscow Aviation Institute. Since 1993 - test pilot of the State Flight Testing Center (GLIC). Then deputy and commander aviation squadron of flight test service fighter aircraft. He tested the aircraft Su-27, Su-30MKK, Su-25TM, MiG-29S, target aircraft M-21M and M-29. He performed the test landing of the Su-25UTG and Su-33 on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, including during military service in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. He was awarded the Order of Courage.
Test pilot Sergei Bogdan Sukhoi works with 2000 he participated and continues to participate in the tests of the Su-24M2, 25SM Su-Su-27M, 27SM Su-Su-30KN, 30MK2 Su-Su-30MKI, Su- 30MKA, Su-30MKM, Su-27KUB, Su-35UB, Su-47 ("Berkut"). He performed demonstration flights on Su-30MK2 (MAX - 2001, 2003, 2005), Su-27SKM (Le Bourget salon - 2005), Su-30МК2 (Algeria, Libya, Venezuela - 2006). He mastered more than 50 types and modifications of aircraft. The first serial Su-30MKI, the multifunctional Su-35 fighter and the promising fifth-generation aviation complex, the PAK FA, took to the skies.
Last July, Sergei Bogdan was awarded the Star of the Hero of the Russian Federation. The pilot was awarded the highest state award of the country for his great contribution to the development, creation, production of special equipment and many years of conscientious work.
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