It was founded on September 1, 1951 as the Kyiv Higher Engineering Radio-Technical College of the Soviet Air Force. The academy had a very high reputation; competition for admission was 15 applicants per place. It had academic councils which were awarding
Doktor nauk and
Candidate of Sciences (
Ph.D.) degrees. The academy had two locations. The main academic campus was located at 30 Vozdukhoflotskii Avenue in a massive three-story building built in the 1910s, and a second building on Hryhoriia Andriuschenka Street. In addition, the academy had a training airfield near the
Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany). About a dozen planes and helicopters of various types were available there for engineering practice. The flights were not performed. Later, the training airfield was used to establish the
Ukraine State Aviation Museum. On July 3, 2000, the military institution has ceased to exist as such, has been reorganized, the staff and students were relocated to the
Air Force University at
Kharkiv. The main academic building now houses the
Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defense University of Ukraine. ==Faculties==