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The 18th separate army aviation brigade was established in February 2015. In fact, the unit considers October 1 as its birthday, when the first Mi-8MSB-V helicopter appeared. The unit was formed on the basis of the 215th aviation commandant's office (unit A2673) of the Air Force of Ukraine, which was a reserve airfield for fighters of the 831st Myrhorod brigade. The brigade became the fourth such unit of army aviation within the Ground Forces of Ukraine. On March 26, 2017, a Mi-2 helicopter belonging to the brigade crashed near Kramatorsk. There were three crew members and two passengers on board. Three crew members died, Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Voloshyn, Captain Dmytro Movchan and Senior Lieutenant Roman Kandul, and two passengers, Colonels Valery Melnyk and Viktor Kalytych, officers of the Armaments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On December 5, 2020, the brigade, "in order to restore the historical traditions of the national army regarding the names of military units, taking into account the exemplary performance of assigned tasks, high indicators in combat training", was awarded the honorary name "in the name of Igor Sikorsky". On August 29, 2023, Mi-8 military helicopters of the 18th OBrAA crashed in Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region, 6 pilots were killed.
