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36th Special Aviation Regiment

Field	Value
unit_name	36th Special Regiment of Aviation Transport
native_name	pl
image	Logo SPLT.jpg
image_size	150
caption	36 SPLT Logo
dates	1945–2011
country
allegiance	Polish Air Force
type	Special Aviation Regiment
role	VIP Transport, Transport
command_structure	Regiment
garrison	1 Baza Lotnicza (1st Air Base) Warszawa district Okęcie
garrison_label	Base:
decorations
commander1	Col. pilot (płk pil.) Mirosław Jemielniak
commander1_label	Squadron Leader
notable_commanders
identification_symbol_2
aircraft_helicopter_utility	Bell 412, PZL W-3 Sokół, Mil Mi-8
aircraft_transport	Tu-154, Yak-40, PZL M28

VIP airliner Tupolev Tu-154M Lux at the airport in [[Zagreb

The 36th Special Regiment of Aviation Transport (; 36 SPLT) was a special aviation regiment of the Polish Air Force, established in 1945. All of its aircraft were for national public use, the most important being transport of Polish politicians and Ministry of National Defence highest officials & forces commanders. It was headquartered at the 1st Air Base at Warsaw Chopin Airport (formerly Okęcie). Between 1947 and 1974 it operated as Special Air Regiment, earlier as Government Transport Squadron. It was shut down in 2011 and its fleet retired.

Accidents

On 28 February 1973 a government airliner Antonov An-24W serial number 97305702 (tail number 012), crashed in Szczecin, north-west Poland. All 18 people on board were killed (including ministers of the interior of Poland and Czechoslovakia).
On 4 December 2003 Mi-8 helicopter carrying Poland's Prime Minister Leszek Miller crashed near Warsaw, all people on board survived. Main article: 2003 Polish Air Force Mi-8 crash
On 10 April 2010 one of two Tupolev Tu-154 airplanes (serial number 90A-837; Polish aircraft 101) crash landed in fog at Smolensk North, Russia. All 96 on board died, including Poland's President Lech Kaczyński and 42 other officials en route to the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre nearby. The crash also took lives of the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army and most senior military commanding officers, the National Bank of Poland governor, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and dignitaries in the government, vice-speakers and members of the Senate of the Republic of Poland and Sejm of the Republic of Poland houses of the National Assembly of the Republic of Poland, and senior members of clergy of various denominations. Main article: Smolensk air disaster

On 4 August 2011, the regiment was disbanded by the Polish Minister of National Defence as a direct consequence of the 2010 crash. The regiment officially ceased to exist on 31 December 2011; however, the 1st Air Transport Base continues to transport government VIPs by helicopter. In the immediate aftermath of the regiment's closure, all Polish government officials have been using civil aircraft owned by LOT Polish Airlines, mainly two Embraer 175 operated exclusively for government; later, in December 2017, the Polish Air Force acquired 3 Boeing 737s for government use.

Equipment disbandment in 2011

Previously operated transport aircraft including Lisunov Li-2, Ilyushin Il-14, Antonov An-24 and Tupolev Tu-134.

Model	Picture	In service
Tupolev Tu-154M Lux	[[File:Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 Dmitry Karpezo-2.jpg	150px]]	1
Yakovlev Yak-40	[[File:Okęcie - samolot 01.JPG	150px]]	4
PZL M28	[[File:PL M-28 Bryza Okęcie.JPG	150px]]	3
PZL W-3 Sokół	[[File:PL PZL W3 Sokół Government version.JPG	150px]]	5
Bell 412	[[File:PL Bell 412HP Polish government.JPG	150px]]	1
Mi-8	[[File:Helicopter (Lublinek Airport).jpg	150px]]	7

References

The Picture of the Polish Tu-154M Flight Crew as Expert-Flyers Emerges: The Crew Cleared of Any Wrongdoing, by Peter Czartoryski-Sziler for "Nasz Dziennik"

References

"Katastrofa An-24 sprzed 39 lat. Niepublikowane zdjęcia".
{{in lang. pl [http://www.mswia.gov.pl/portal/pl/2/8365/Lista_pasazerow_i_zalogi_samolotu_TU154.html Lista pasażerów i załogi samolotu TU-154M Lux], MSWiA Poland
link. (27 September 2011 , [[EMERCOM]] Russia)
(15 February 2018). "Polish Air Force 737-800 delivered".

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