founded in 1912 and disbanded in 1917 with the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War. Some former IRAS personnel joined the White Russian side, but unlike the Reds, the Whites never created an official air force.

The first Red move toward creating a military aviation branch was the All-Russia Collegium for the Direction of the Air Forces of the Old Army (translation is uncertain), formed on 20 December 1917. This was a Bolshevik