2016 Polish Register of Aircraft
The Airbus Helicopters H-135P3 ambulance helicopter marked SP-DXA was entered into the register on December 14, 2015 (item 711). Photo LPR
At the beginning of January of this year, 2501 aircraft were registered in the Polish register, and 856 more were in the register. , gyroplanes, paragliders, motor gliders, small unmanned aerial vehicles and others. The most popular aircraft are: Cessna 25 (152 units), Cessna 97 and PZL-Mielec An-172 and ultralight Aeroprakt A-2 and Sky Ranger, as well as helicopters: Robinson R22 (44 units), Airbus Helicopters EC-57 and PZL . - Svidnik Mi-135.
The Civil Aircraft Registry is maintained by the President of the Civil Aviation Administration (CAA). The implementation of the tasks of the register follows from the provisions of the Law on Aviation of July 3, 2002 and the "Regulation of the Minister of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy of June 6, 2013 on the register of civil aircraft and on signs and inscriptions on aircraft entered in this register ".
Only aircraft for which the President of the CAA has issued a certificate of airworthiness or has recognized such a certificate issued by the competent authority of a foreign state shall be entered in the register or entries. During registration, aircraft are assigned identification marks consisting of nationality marks (letters SP) and registration marks separated by a horizontal line. Three letters are given - airplanes, helicopters, airships and balloons; four digits for gliders and motor gliders, and four letters for aircraft entered in the entries. The identification marks are permanently affixed to the aircraft and can be easily identified. Their size depends on the type of equipment and the place of application. By making an entry in the register / entry, the identity of this copy is established, its owner and user are indicated, and its Polish citizenship is established.
Entry confirmation is the issuance by the President of the Civil Aviation Authority of a "Registration Certificate" or "Record Certificate". The aircraft has an individual file in which the collected registration documents and subsequent checks of operational and technical performance are archived.
In addition, the register includes such actions as: removal of aircraft; changes to previously entered data (for example, personal and address data); issuance of certificates of deregistration or deregistration; issuance of statements; issuance of duplicate registration certificates; transmission of transponder codes of the Mode-S secondary radar and keeping records of the permanent presence of Polish civil aircraft abroad for a period of more than six months and of foreign aircraft in the Republic of Poland for more than three months. On behalf of the Chairman of the Civil Aviation Administration, official activities related to the register are carried out by the Department of the Civil Aircraft Register, located in the organizational structure of the Department of Aviation Technology.
Registry activities in 2015
Last year, the activity of the aviation registry was opened on January 2 by an entry in the registry of motor gliders Bionik SP-MPZG (pos. 848), and a week later - Jungmeister Bü-133PA SP-YBK (pos. 4836, pos. the registry entry was made on 13.01.2015) 48) and glider SZD-3-3894 Yantar SP-3894 (product 13.01.2015/70/688, entry 22.01.2015). The first helicopter entered was the Black Hawk S-XNUMXi SP-YVF (art. XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX, entry XNUMX), which was registered in the "Special" category.
During the year, the registration department performed about a thousand different operations: adding (196 new aircraft), deleting (102), changing the address or data on the ownership of aviation equipment, and others. On the other hand, 61 ships (26 ultralight aircraft, 5 gyroplanes, 19 powered hang gliders, 3 paragliders and 8 drones) were included in the entries, and one ultralight aircraft was excluded.
There are 90 aircraft registered on the aircraft register, including: Tecnam (10), Jak-52 (8), M-28 Skytruck (6), Airbus A320 (5) and Boeing 737 (2). 70 units excluded, including: Cessna 150 (7), Airbus A320 (4), M-28 Skytruck (4) and Embraer 170 (3).
29 helicopters were included in the helicopter register, including: PZL-Świdnik W-3 Sokół (4), Airbus Helicopters H-135 (4), Robinson R44 (3), and 14 were excluded, including m.in.: W - 3 Falcon (6) and R44 (4). In addition, several new Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk helicopters built at the Polskie Zakłady Lotnicze plant in Mielec were included in the register for the period of factory testing and technical flight.
8 positions were included in the register of motor gliders, including: Pipistel Sinus (2), AOS-71 (1), one was excluded (SZD-45A Ogar).
49 positions were entered in the airframe register, including: SZD-9 bis Botsian (6), SZD-54 Perkoz (6) and SZD-30 Pirate (5), and 13 positions were excluded, including: SZD-54 Perkoz ( 3) and SZD-36 "Cobra" (2).
There are 20 balloons listed on the balloon registry, mostly manufactured by Kubitschek (6), Lindstrand (5) and Schröder (4), with four excluded (Cameron V-77, AX-8 and G/M).
Compared to the previous year (January 1.01.2015, 2407), the number of vehicles in the register increased from 2501 4 to 1218 1238 (by 180%). In the main vehicle categories, the number of aircraft increased from 195 to 21, helicopters from 28 to 810, motor gliders from 846 to 177, gliders from 193 to 105 and balloons from XNUMX to XNUMX. The number of airships from the number of years has not changed and it permanently houses one private Cameron ASXNUMX.
