Sergey Leonidovich Bogdan is a test pilot. He tested more than 50 aircraft, flew about 6, 000 hours.
Bogdan Sergey Leonidovich is a fearless test pilot. For the contribution he made to the verification of combat aircraft, the officer was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Biography
The future famous pilot was born in Volsk in March 1962. Then the parents moved from the Saratov region to the suburbs, and Sergei spent his childhood in the city of Voskresensk. The boy often looked up at the sky and looked with admiration at the planes flying to the airfield in Zhukovsky.
The young man realized his dreams after graduation. Then he went to an aviation school to master the profession of a military pilot.
Sergei Leonidovich left this institution, having received a special education, in 1983. Then he served in the aviation regiment, where he flew in a fighter-bomber.
Military career
Then Bogdana S.L. sent to Mongolia. Here he served on a flight base for three years.
In 1990, Sergei Leonidovich was appointed deputy commander of a squadron based on the Black Sea.
A year later, Bogdan becomes a test pilot. He improves this art at the training center, and then at the test center at the Ministry of Defense.
At this time, Sergey Bogdan not only practices, but also tightens the theoretical part, studying at the Moscow Aviation Institute.
In total, the famous pilot flew 57 aircraft, mastered them. He also has a track record of landing aircraft on an aircraft-carrying cruiser.
Resignation and new trials
In 2002, Sergei Leonidovich resigned, but did not stop flying. On the basis of the Sukhoi company, he continued to work as a combat aircraft tester.
For great services in 2011, Bogdana S.L. awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
