Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators PVO

The Stavropol Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and Navigators of the Air Defense Forces was an aviation school located in the city of Stavropol (at Stavropol Shpakovskoye Airport), which trained flight personnel (pilots and navigators) for the Soviet Air Defence Forces and Air Forces.

The school was formed on 1 November 1969 and controlled four training aviation regiments (at Salsk, Khankala, Tikhoretsk, and Kholodnogorsk). In 1993 the school was renamed the Stavropol Higher Aviation Engineering Institute, with schools at Stavropol, Daugavpils and Lomonosov.