Until 1992 the Belorussian Military District of the USSR comprised the 5th Guards Tank Army, the 7th Tank Army, the 28th Army, the 120th Guards Motor Rifle Division, the 51st Guards aviation division, the 72nd Guards United Training Center and logistical units and formations.

After the Finnish state privatized Valmet in 1996, the aviation division was detached and integrated into Finnish defence industries, Patria, as Patria Finavitec.

Its Civil Aerospace Medical Institute ( CAMI ) has a medical education division responsible for aeromedical education in general as well as the education of aviation medical examiners in the US and 93 other countries.

The county sheriff also maintains a civil division, marine division, alcohol and traffic enforcement units, and an aviation division.

Two divisions usually compose a corps and each division consists of four maneuver brigades, an aviation brigade, an engineer brigade, and division artillery ( latter two excluded from divisional structure as of 2007 ), along with a number of smaller specialized units.

The USCG maintains an extensive fleet of coastal and ocean-going patrol ships, called cutters by tradition, and small craft, as well as an extensive aviation division consisting of HH-65 Dolphin and HH-60 Jayhawk helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft such as the C-130 Hercules, HU-25 Guardian, and HC-144 Ocean Sentry.

Three rifle divisions were raised in Alma-Ata, including the well-known 8th Guards Rifle Division ' Panfilov ' ( originally the 316th rifle division ), along with 2 rifle battalions and 3 aviation regiments that were raised on the bases of the air club of Alma-Ata.

When the United States Army integrates with Air Force assets, it typically is at the theater or corps level, with a general commanding, while at the division level it will integrate with Army aviation, which can be organized as organic at the battalion level.

The following May, the firm acquired Hamburger Flugzeugbau ( HFB ), the aviation division of Blohm + Voss.

When self-propelled artillery, the armoured personnel carrier, the wheeled cargo vehicle, and supporting aviation — all with adequate communications — were combined to constitute the modern armored division, commanders regained the capability of maneuver.

Since it was the first design from Junkers to serve in the Luftstreitkräfte's " J-class " of armored, infantry co-operation aircraft, which also had aircraft designed by Albatros and AEG serving with it in the same capacity, the curious and confusing instance of the Junkers J 4 armored all-metal sesquiplane getting the German military designation " J. I " was one caused solely by the Luftstreitkräfte's choice of letter for all of their armored, ground forces co-operation aircraft class in World War I, with other J-class aircraqft coming from Albatros Flugzeugwerke and the aviation division of AEG.

The following May, the firm acquired Hamburger Flugzeugbau ( HFB ), the aviation division of Blohm + Voss.

The Aviation Management and Business division is located at a dedicated aviation campus in Eastman.

Throughout 1942, the administrative infrastructure for aviation training was set up and refined, and Radford oversaw the massive growth of the training division, establishing separate sections for administration, Physical Training Service Schools, training devices and sections to train various aviators in flight, aircraft operation, radio operation, and gunnery.

* 1924: Arthur Parker saves and restarts the Parker Appliance Company and the pneumatic / hydraulic components division succeeded by serving automotive and aviation customers.

The merger of Fairey's aviation interests with Westland Aircraft took place in early 1960 shortly after Westland had acquired the Saunders-Roe group and the helicopter division of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

He returned to the United States and an assignment as aviation weapons division officer with VMFA-251 at the Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort, South Carolina.

* The Argentine Navy establishes a naval aviation division and allocates funds for the founding of a naval aviation school.

In 1980 the thriving general aviation division was separated as Hawker Pacific but both companies remained part of Hawker Siddeley.

In 1938-1939 a factory was built in Mielec, designated as PZL WP-2 ( Wytwórnia Płatowców 2-Airframe Factory no. 2 ), which was a division of the biggest Polish aviation works PZL in Warsaw ( Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze-State Aviation Works ), but the production was only starting there at the outbreak of World War II.

Luftwaffe is also the generic term in German speaking countries for any national military aviation service, and the names of air forces in other countries are usually translated into German as " Luftwaffe " ( e. g. Royal Air Force is often translated as britische Luftwaffe ).

On 13 April 1912, less than two weeks after the creation of the Royal Flying Corps ( which initially consisted of both a naval and a military wing ), an Air Committee was established to act as an intermediary between the Admiralty and the War Office in matters relating to aviation.

* Nick Cook ( Nicholas Julian Cook, b. September 2, 1959 ) is a British aviation journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction works and has won four Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society.

In 1911 the Royal Navy graduated its first aeroplane pilots at the Royal Aero Club flying ground at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey under the tutelage of pioneer aviator George Bertram Cockburn, but in May 1912 naval and army aviation were combined to become the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ).

In 1938, Banting's interest in aviation medicine resulted in his participation with the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) in research concerning the physiological problems encountered by pilots operating high-altitude combat aircraft.

Royal Air Force Museum is a museum built on part of the site of Hendon Aerodrome, dedicated to the history of aviation, and the British Royal Air Force in particular.

Royal Brunei subsidiaries are companies that are involved in the non-core businesses supporting its aviation business activities such as Royal Brunei Catering, which operates the flight kitchen at Brunei International Airport and Royal Brunei Engineering which provides maintenance and overhaul of aircraft.

Under pressure from the services, both the Royal Navy and British Army, the Government increased spending and the aviation budget rose from £ 9, 000 in 1909 to £ 500, 000 by 1913.

The Royal Naval Air Service ( RNAS ) factored these aspects of naval air warfare into its development of naval aviation.

BCATP / EATS remains as one of the single largest aviation training programs in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force ( RAF ), Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) and Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) during the war.

He was knighted on 3 June 1932 by the Australian Governor-General Sir Isaac Isaacs for services to aviation and later was appointed honorary Air Commodore of the Royal Australian Air Force.

Modern naval helicopters are significant weapons platforms, the presence of aviation facilities on RFA ships allows for them to be used as ' force multipliers ' for the task groups they support in line with Royal Navy doctrine.

* Oliver Swann ( 1878-1948 ), British naval aviation pioneer and Royal Air Force officer

Even before civil aviation operations could commence at the new site, the onset of World War II saw the facility being redesigned for military purposes as a temporary base for the Royal Australian Air Force and United States Navy, known as " RAAF Station Guildford ", primarily to supplement RAAF Base Pearce.

The governing bodies of the various forms of sporting aviation are all members of the Royal Aero Club, which is the UK governing body for international sporting purposes.

The Aeronautic Ministry was created on January 20, 1941, and absorbed the former Army and Navy aviation under its command.

The mission of the Blue Angels is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting, and credibly represent Navy and Marine Corps aviation to the United States and its Armed Forces to America and other countries.

On 24 April 1946 Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Chester Nimitz issued a directive ordering the formation of a flight exhibition team to boost Navy morale, demonstrate naval air power, and maintain public interest in naval aviation.

The " title " of commodore continues to be used in the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard for those senior captains in command of organizations consisting of groups of ships or submarines organized into squadrons ; air wings or air groups of multiple aviation squadrons other than carrier air wings ( the latter whose commanders still use the title " CAG "); explosive ordnance disposal ( EOD ), mine warfare and special warfare ( SEAL ) groups ; and construction battalion ( SeaBee ) regiments.

Peruvian Navy has also a naval aviation force, several naval infantry battalions and special forces units.

They consist of the Army, the Navy ( including naval aviation and naval infantry ), and the Air Force.

* April 24 – Kenneth Whiting, United States Navy officer and submarine and naval aviation pioneer ( b. 1881 )

* July 22 – Kenneth Whiting, United States Navy officer and submarine and naval aviation pioneer ( d. 1943 )

The report noted that although the Army authorities were ready and willing to provide information and take part in meetings, the Navy were often absent from Board meetings and frequently refused to provide information on naval aviation.

Commander William S. Donaldson III ( 1944 – August 22, 2001 ) was a United States Navy pilot with more than 24 years of experience in nearly all phases of naval aviation and Vietnam War veteran.

When the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, he left college to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Corps ; however, the Army did not call him up, and in March 1942 he enlisted as a United States Navy aviation cadet.

In the late 1930s, Gulf's aviation manager, Maj. Alford J. Williams, had the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation construct two modified biplanes, cleaned-up versions of the Grumman F3F Navy fighter, for promotional use by the company.

On April 3, Mitchell met with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and a board of admirals to discuss aviation, and Mitchell urged the development of naval aviation because of the growing obsolescence of the surface fleet.

Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market.

" Despite the development in 1941 of the Joint Army / Navy Phonetic Alphabet and its replacement, circa 1956, by the NATO phonetic alphabet ( currently used by U. S. military, civil aviation, telecommunications, and some law enforcement agencies ), the LAPD and other law enforcement and emergency service agencies throughout the United States continue to use it.

An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American drama film that tells the story of a U. S. Navy aviation officer candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him.

Abruptly resigning, Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan expressed concern about the future of the United States Marine Corps and marine and naval aviation and Johnson's determination to eliminate those services through progressive program cuts.

With Douglas Aircraft as a resident, the attitude of Long Beach's authorities became cold and openly hostile to naval aviation, with its city manager saying that " the sooner the Navy gets out of the Long Beach airport, the better we will like it.

* May 16 – The movie Top Gun, which glamorizes United States Navy aviation, opens in theaters in the United States.