Sulom-Bek Susarkulovich Oskanov (Russian: Суламбек Сусаркулович Осканов; 8 January 1943 – 7 February 1992) was an Ingush pilot and Major-General in the Soviet and later Russian Air Forces who headed the Lipetsk Center of Combat Training.

In February 1944, together with whole Ingush and Chechen nations, he and his family deported to prison camps in Central Asia during Operation Lentil.

In 1966 he graduated with honors from the Kacha Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots and was assigned to work as a flight instructor with the rank of Lieutenant.

He then served in Germany and before being appointed as deputy commander of a center of military education in Lipetsk in 1987 while he was a colonel.

[4] On 7 February 1992, a MiG-29 Oskanov was flying in difficult weather suffered an in-flight electronics failure, resulting in the artificial horizon going blank.