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Special Purpose State Aviation


Special-purpose state aviation is state aviation used for performing tasks assigned to federal executive authorities, federal state bodies, and organizations that operate state aircraft, in the areas of ensuring the security of the Russian Federation, protection of objects under state guard, maintenance of public order, public safety, and crime prevention, criminal proceedings, as well as in customs affairs, space activities, civil defense, protection of population and territories from natural and man-made emergencies, including ensuring the safety of people on water bodies, and fire safety, falls under special-purpose state aviation1.

  1. Federal Air Code of the Russian Federation. 1997, as amended on 2025-11-04, Article 22, paragraph 1. ↩