PZL M28 Skytruck

The PZL M28 Skytruck is a Polish STOL light cargo and passenger plane, produced by PZL-Mielec, as a development of license-built Antonov An-28s. Early licence-built planes were designated PZL An-28. The maritime patrol and reconnaissance variants are named PZL M28B Bryza ("sea breeze").
==Variants==
*PZL An-28: Original variant build under Antonov licence, with PZL-10S (licence TV-10B) engines.
**PZL An-28TD: Basic transport variant. Used mainly for transport and paratroop training (2 built).
*PZL M28 Skytruck: Development variant with redesigned fuselage and wings, new Pratt & Whitney Canada engines, new (western) avionics, 5-blade rotors, and some other minor changes.
*PZL M28B Bryza: Militarized variants used by Polish Air Force and Polish Navy, similar to Skytruck, but with PZL-10S engines. Bryza 1TD (2 built), M28B (3 built), M28B Salon (1 built), M28B TDII, TDIII and TDIV (2 built of each).
**PZL M28B Bryza 1R: Maritime patrol and reconnaissance variant (equipped with: 360° Search and Surveillance Radar ASR-400, Link-11 datalink). Used mainly for sea border patrolling, search and rescue operations and protection of the national economical sea zone (7 built).
**PZL M28B Bryza 1E: Maritime ecological reconnaissance and patrol variant (2 built).
**PZL M28B Bryza 1RM bis: Maritime patrol and reconnaissance variant with submarine detection capability, of 2004 (equipped with: 360° Search and Surveillance Radar ARS-800-2, ejection of single-use hydro-acoustic sonobuoys, Thermal Imaging System (FLIR), magnetic anomaly detector, Link-11 datalink). Used mainly for sea border patrolling, search and rescue operations and protection of the national economical sea zone (1 built as of 2006).
**PZL M28 05 Skytruck: Maritime patrol and SAR variant for the Polish Border Guard, of 2006 (equipped with Search and Surveillance Radar ARS-400M and FLIR system) (1 built as of 2006).
*PZL M28+ Skytruck Plus: Prototype of new lengthened variant with more internal space, not in production.
*C-145A: Variant flown by USAF Special Operations Warfare Center. Similar to Skytruck, but with Pratt and Whitney PT6A-65B Turboprops. The USAF has started retiring the aircraft, with the first aircraft, AF Ser. No. 08-0310, delivered to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona on 28 May 2015. By June 2015 eleven out of 16 aircraft were stored.
==Users==
*Ecuador
**Ecuadorian Army
*Estonia
**Estonian Air Force
*Germany
**Luftwaffe
*Guyana
**JAGS Aviation Guyana
*Indonesia
**Indonesian National Police
*Jordan
**Royal Jordanian Air Force
*Kenya
**Kenyan Air Force
*Nepal
**Nepalese Army Air Service
*Poland
**Polish Air Force
**Polish Border Guard
**Polish Navy
*United States
**Arizona Department of Public Safety
**Sierra Nevada Corporation
**United States Air Force
*Venezuela
**Venezuelan Air Force
**Venezuelan National Guard
*Vietnam
**Vietnam People's Air Force
==See Also==
===Related Development===
*Antonov An-14
*Antonov An-28
===Comparable Aircraft===
*CASA C-212 Aviocar
*De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
*Dornier Do228
*GAF Nomad
*Harbin Y-12
*IAI Arava
*LET L-410 Turbolet
*Short SC.7 Skyvan
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