Aircraft Engineering Faculty was founded in 1960 as a result of withdrawal of the Department of Aircraft Engineering Technologies from the structure of the Shipbuilding Faculty. Over the 35 years that have elapsed since then, the AEF has proudly borne the honoured name of one of the best faculties within the University. It has many accomplishments to its credit.

In 1968 the first ever students' design&engineering division was set up at the AEF. In 1969, at the Soviet Exhibition of Economic Achievements (Rus.: VDNH), a model of a WIG aircraft ELA-5 was presented and got the Bronze Medal.

The first project of the young aircraft engineers at the Division that was put into life was the ELA-7 "Albatross" plane. It was engineered and constructed in 1968-1971. In 1977 the team of the Students' Design&Engineering Division at the Faculty became laureate of the Khabarovsk City Komsomol Prize.

In 1982 in Moscow at the Youth Exhibition of Scientific and Engineering Inventions, the micro-plane "Fly-Bird" engineered and produced by the Division got Silver prize.  

In 1984 the Division started design-engineering of remote-control flying vehicle called "Gratch-4" (Rus. for "rook"). In 1985 the "Gratch-4" took Silver prize at the Soviet Exhibition of Economic Achievements. All in all, during the years of the Division's work, its team have designed and constructed more than two dozens of various vehicles. In 1985 a computing centre was set up at the Faculty (using Soviet-made desktop PCs) – the first one in the University.

From 1987 till 1991 the Smaller Faculty of Aviation Engineering (SFAE) operated at the premises of the EEF; together with the Yury Gagarin Aviation Plant's specialists our staff teached the basics of aviation engineering to secondary school children according to education programs approved by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR.

The Aircraft Engineering Faculty is proud of its former graduates among whom there are two members of Russian Parliament, several directors of largest aviation plants/companies, heads and deputy-heads of various city administrations, PhDs and Doctors of Science, professors and university teachers.

In 1994 a merger of the Aircraft Engineering Faculty and the Shipbuilding Faculty took place, which led to setting up a single Faculty of Aircraft Engineering and Shipbuilding (FAES). The Department of Aviation Technologies carried on its efforts to enhance its scientific and technical potential, improve and develop laboratory facilities and personnel capabilities. New CAD/CAM/CAE design engineering labs were set up with state-or-the-art computing equipment, and also joint (together with the JSC "KnAAPO" company) pre-production engineering automation labs were organized at the Faculty. In 2004 the К212.092.04 Dissertation Board was created to grant PhD degrees in discipline No. 05.07.02: "Design, engineering and manufacture of airborne vehicles".

On May 18th, 2007, the Shipbuilding Faculty was revived (order No. 137-"O") with two departments: Aviation Technology and Mechanics/Analysis of Structures and Processes. Nowadays at the Faculty we teach Bachelors, Masters and Engineers in the most topical and important disciplines and subjects. We look to the future positively and wish all our students to become first-class professionals each in his/her field.