The German company PD Sicherheit will buy 2 M-28 aircraft from PZL Mielec for parachute training. The first 1 is due to hit for Oder already next year, and the second 1 in 2027. The Mielec plant does not disclose the value of the contract, but acknowledges that it includes not only aircraft but besides service and spare parts.
PD Sicherheit is simply a German defence and education company that specializes in organizing specialized trainings for the military and uniformed services, primarily parachute training. Since 2017, the company uses Polish M-28 aircraft. It presently has 4 aircraft in its fleet produced by PZL Mielec..and shortly it will be enriched with 2 more copies. On 25 November, a Polish company belonging to the American company Lockheed Martin informed that it had signed a contract with a German company (no value was revealed), under which it would deliver 1 M-28 05 aircraft in 2026 and the another in the following year.
– Cooperation with the PD Sicherheit GmbH is an honor. Each contract for the transportation of M-28 05 aircraft is simply a confirmation of the quality of our engineering and experience of PZL Mielec. We are pleased that the solutions developed in Poland support training and safety of partners around the world," commented Janusz Zakręcki, president of PZL Mielec.
Developed in the early 1990s, the M-28 (Skytruck/Bryza) aircraft is 1 of the flagship betting products from Mielec. So far, the Polish aviation company has produced over a 100 copies, which went to customers from all over the world, especially to the military and uniform formations.
The advantage of the Polish plan is simply a wide selection of specialist versions – PZL Mielec offers M-28 in passenger, transport, passenger and transport configuration, VIP/SALON, landing, medical evacuation, sea patrol and search and rescue (SAR).
The largest user of the M-28 is the Polish Army, which has almost 40 copies of them – in version M-28 Bryza, and from abroad army – the Venezuelan armed forces, which have a fleet of 11 copies. Many Skytrucks besides have an army of Nepal in their equipment – 5 copies and plans to buy more. The first 2 were contracted over 20 years ago, in 2001, and after losing 1 of the machines in 2017, she bought 2 in 2019 and another 2 in 2023.
