Fedotov Test Pilot School
Native name | Школа лётчиков-испытателей имени А. В. Федотова |
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| Company type | division |
| Industry | aerospace |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Founder | Mikhail Gromov |
| Headquarters | , Russia |
Area served | Europe and Asia |
Key people | Alexey V. Naumov, Chief of the school |
| Owner | Russian Federation |
| Parent | Gromov Flight Research Institute |
| Website | TPS section at the GFRI site (in Russian) |
| External image | |
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| The Fedotov TPS building with a nearby MiG-21 testbed aircraft monument |
The Fedotov Test Pilot School or FTPS (Russian: Школа лётчиков-испытателей имени А. В. Федотова or Russian: ШЛИ) is one of two test pilot schools in Russia (the other one is a military test pilot school in Akhtubinsk). The school was established in 1947 when Russia was part of the USSR and is named after Aleksandr Vasilyevich Fedotov, a test pilot who was killed in an aircraft crash in the 1980s.