Category: Squadrons

Emblem of the 40th Tactical Aviation Squadron, first and second squadrons

The 15th Independent Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron was a Polish aviation unit performing tasks for the Polish Navy and Polish Military Aviation. The unit took its aviation traditions from the rich history of Polish Naval Aviation from the period of the Second Polish Republic.

The 3rd Tactical Aviation Squadron was a unit with Polish roots. Its origins are related to the 4th Greater Poland Air Squadron, formed in 1919, at Ławica Airport, which also included pilots from the 2nd Krakow-Poznań Squadron, established in France in 1918. Particularly strong roots are visible from the moment when the 131st Fighter Aviation…

After the liquidation of the 11th PLM in 1999, Strachowice Airport was transformed into the 3rd Air Base. This was closely related to the accession of the Republic of Poland to NATO structures and the introduction of a new structure of Military Aviation and the lack of prospects for a larger number of new combat…

Soviet plans during World War II included the creation of a Polish air force as the 3rd Fighter-Bomber Aviation Division. Due to the lack of appropriate equipment, the 3rd Fighter Aviation Division was formed, consisting of three fighter regiments, which were given the designations: 9. PLM, 10. PLM, 11. PLM. In the margin at that…

In 1987, the 39th PLM was disbanded. Operational MiG-21 PFM aircraft were transferred to the 10th PLM in Łask. Some MiG-21 PF aircraft in the spotlight of cameras were cut for scrap at the beginning of 1990 as a unilateral reduction of armaments. The airport area in Mierzęcice also became a non-permanent base for decommissioned…

Jak-23 nb 16. 2008 year. Photo by Karol Placha Hetman

Emblem of the 41st ELT on the MiG-29 aircraft. 2010 year. Photo by Karol Placha Hetman

On January 1, 2001, as a result of the restructuring of the Air Force and Air Defense, two military units were established in place of the 1st Fighter Aviation Regiment (1. PLM): First – 23rd Air Base – a logistics unit that took over the economic property of the 1st Regiment . The second -…

13 PLTr was continuously based at Balice Airport near Krakow. For some people of communist orientation, the regiment had its roots in the 13th Independent Transport Aviation Regiment. Maybe yes maybe no. But to preserve the chronology of aviation history, we must write about it. The 13th Independent Transport Aviation Regiment was created, like all…