Soviet Test Pilot's badge

[Elmar Lang]

Hello,

Here's a strange (to me) test-pilot's badge, different from the usually known award: until now I had no success as to know what does the cyrillic acronym "ZPLS" mean. Any idea?

Many thanks in advance,

Enzo

[Belaruski]

Nice quality badge, if it helps, it's not ZPLS

but Ts P L S

(Tsentr- Centre for something?)

Edited January 25, 2008 by Belaruski

[Lapa]

Nice quality badge, if it helps, it's not ZPLS

but Ts P L S

(Tsentr- Centre for something?)

Enzo,

"ЦПЛС" means "Центра Подготовки Летного Состава", in other terms the Center for Preparation of Flight Crew. It was opened in September 2002, following Prikaz No 17 of the Ukraine Ministry for Economic Policy of 27/07/2001.

Marc