Dasha Ibragimovich Akayev (Russian: Даша Ибрагимович Акаев; 5 April 1910 – 26 February 1944) was the first Chechen pilot and a regimental commander in the Soviet Air Forces.

He was killed in action leading an attack on a heavily fortified German airfield just three days after the NKVD began the exile of the Chechen people.

During the start of the German Invasion of the Soviet Union he was a lieutenant in the Amur Red Banner Flotilla in the Russian Far East.

[5] Upon arrival to the Eastern Front, Akayev initially made sorties on the Beriev MBR-2 "flying boat", gaining a total of over 122 flight hours.

[6][7] Akayev was killed in the line of duty on 26 February 1944 along with seven other members of his regiment while leading a mission that successfully destroyed a heavily-defended airfield used in the bombing of Leningrad that was considered unattackable.