44th Aviation Division

Because of the crisis at Northwest of county, division has been dislocated to Novi Sad by Spring of 1946, and to Ljubljana by Summer-Autumn same year.

On 9 August 1946 a pair of Yak-3 aircraft from 254th Regiment piloted by the Lieutenant Dragan Zečević and Warrant Officer Dragan Stanisavljević have open fire and hit USAF C-47 which has violated Yugoslav airspace flow over Ljubljana airport at 12 p.m. which has forced landing 12 km near Kranj.

By winter, division with its regiments has moved to Mostar and then again in 1947 across Novi Sad to Ljubljana and Cerklje where it stayed during late 1947 and 1948.

Division has moved from Cerklje in 1949 to Zemun and finally to new build Batajnica Air Base in 1951 where it has stayed until it was disbanded.

The commanders of division in this period were Hinko Šoić, Mihajlo Nikolić and Nikola Lekić.