Type Brigade | Branch Air Force Part of Air Command South | |
 | ||
Size 950 personnel65 aircraft (of which 23 operational) Garrison/HQ Kulbakino, Mykolaiv oblast | ||
The 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade is a formation of the Ukrainian Air Force based at Kulbakino. The unit was established as the 299th Instructor-Research Shipborne Aviation Regiment of Soviet Naval Aviation in September 1976. In 1990 it was renamed 299th independent Maritime Assault Aviation Regiment; in 1992 it was taken over by Ukraine, and renamed the 299th independent Assault Aviation Regiment.
The unit is equipped with Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft and is tasked with providing close air support for the Ukrainian Ground Forces and the Ukrainian Navy. It is subordinated to Air Command South headquartered at Odessa and has some 950 servicemen. Initially the airbase operated solely Su-25s but in November 2007 it inherited some 20 L-39 Albatros trainer aircraft from a disbanded unit. Known operational aircraft as of 2016 are 13 L-39Cs and 23 Su-25s (of which 5 are Su-25UBs).