MiG-21 training in Kant air base




MiG-21 Fishbed basic training at the 5th Center

African pilot and his soviet instructor in Kant airport. Background the regiment's MiG-17 Frescos. Photo: Fomicheva A.P.


	The main profile of the 5th Training Center at Frunze was the basic military pilot training. The students of the third and fourth grades flew with advanced fighter training aircraft at the 322nd Training Air Regiment. The old MiG-17 Fresco were used for a long time until the beginning of the eighties to train pilots from Africa.



Soviet MiG-17 Fresco in the 5th Training Center in 1982



	Afghan Air Force crews and their soviet instructors in the in the 5th Training Center

From the seventies, MiG-21 Fishbed advanced fighter training aircraft were used for training. Foreign pilots did not receive combat training, but only basic training.

Congolese pilots and their soviet instructor in front of silver color MiG-21UM Mongol-B. Photo: Valery Okheretko

African pilot in front of MiG-21bis Fishbed-L. Photo: Valery Okheretko




		Guinea Bissau pilot and his soviet instructor in front of MiG-21MF Fishbed-J advanced fighter trainer.



			African pilot in front of MiG-21UM Mongol-B in the eighties. Photo: Valery Okheretko

After 1992 the technique of the regiment and the airport became the property of Kyrgyzstan. Nearly fifty MiG-21MF Fishbed-J, MiG-21bis Fishbed-L/N and MiG-21UM Mongol-B were stored here in the nineties. Eight MiG-21UM Mongol-B stored trainer aircraft were sold to India in 2003 through Ukraine.




Foreign pilot in 322nd Training Air Regiment in Kant airbase in front of grey MiG-21bis, and other colorfull camouflage MiG-21s in the eighties.




		Soviet MiG-21UM Mongol-B training aircraft last fly in 1992.

Frisian Aviation Photo - Kant in 2003 - external link