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The Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya) certified Samara University as an aviation training center (ATC) for training personnel for commercial aviation of Russia. Respective certificate under number 401 was issued to the university by the Privolzhsky Interregional Territorial Administration for Air Transport of the Rosaviatsiya.
The certificate confirms that the University completely complies with the requirements of the Federal Aviation Rules that are imposed to educational organizations and organizations conducting the training of personnel of respective level according to the lists of specialist of the aviation personnel of commercial aviation of Russia. Based on this document, the University will be able to train specialists for all airports, airline companies, and other aviation enterprises of Russia. The validity period of obtained certificate is not time-limited.
“After obtaining this important document, Samara University officially rises to a novel higher from professional point of view level of training of specialist in the field of commercial aviation — the University will perform educational activity in this field in more expanded format than previously. The status of aviation training center from the Rosaviatsiya gives the university a right to train certified aviation personnel for any and all aviation enterprises of the country. This means that specialists received training in our University in certain specialties will not be required to receive additional training or retraining before employment: their documents on education will have the same status as documents of graduates of specialized higher educational establishments of the Rosaviatsiya where flight operator, navigators, panel operators, and aircraft service technician are trained. They will be fully-trained personnel for commercial aviation,” told Vladimir Bogatyrev, Rector of Samara University.
As he noted, educational organizations having a certificate of aviation training center is a rare thing, thus the novel status obtained by Samara University is more valuable. The certificate allows to train personnel for a wide range of aviation specialties, however in the early days in the university as part of the ATC, it is planned to perform training in two areas, the first one will be training of engineering-service personnel for maintenance of aircrafts, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
It is planned that the first training group in this area will be formed even in January 2025. The second educational and training program of the ATC will be devoted to training external pilots of uncrewed aerial vehicles, a training group for this program is in the status of forming.
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According to open data of the Rosaviatsiya, such companies and organizations, as Aeroflot — Russian Airlines PJSC, Moscow Aviation Institute, Baltic Federal University named after Immanuel Kant, International Airport Kurumoch, St. Petersburg State University of Commercial Aviation, Aviation School of Aeroflot, State Research Institute of Commercial Aviation, Corporation University of the Group of Companies “Volga-Dnepr,” Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation named after Chief Marshal of Aviation B.P. Bugaev and other companies and organizations are among owners of this certificate.
