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The Tupolev Tu-154 (Russian: Ty????? ??-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian airlines for several decades, it carried half of all passengers flown by Aeroflot and its subsidiaries (137.5 million/year or 243.8 billion passenger-km in 1990), remaining the standard domestic-route airliner of Russia and former Soviet states until the mid-2000s. It was exported to 17 non-Russian airlines and used as a head-of-state transport by the air forces of several countries.
A 45th aircraft has been sighted flying with Air Kyrgyzstan in 2017,[21] but is not listed by the airline as part of its fleet.

A 46th aircraft, a Polish Tu-154 with operational number 102, is currently in storage at the military airport in Minsk Mazowiecki. It was operated by 36th Special Aviation Regiment, but after the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash of the Tu-154 101, the Regiment has been disbanded and the plane was grounded. It was fully operational, but the government decided not to use or sell it until the investigation into the Smolensk crash is finished. As of June 2021 the aircraft is not flying, and it is unlikely to come back into service, since the government operates a fleet of brand-new, more fuel-efficient jets like the Gulfstream G550 and the Boeing 737 NG. In 2020 it was revealed by the investigation team, led by Antoni Macierewicz, that the aircraft was structurally damaged. The access to the aircraft was restricted by the general prosecutor, and entering its hangar requires a special permission

As of June 2015, the remaining operators are:
: (22)

Airline In service Notes
North Korea Air Koryo 4 Last passenger operator worldwide.[20]
Kazakhstan Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan 1
Russia Federal Security Service 2
Kyrgyzstan Government of Kyrgyzstan 1
Russia Gromov Flight Research Institute 1
China People's Liberation Army Air Force 12[23] 6 of them are ELINT versions with synthetic-aperture radar.[citation needed]
Russia Russian Aerospace Forces 16
Russia Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs 4 operated for the Government of Russia
Russia Russian Navy 2
Russia Chaplygin Siberian Scientific Research Institute Of Aviation 1
Russia Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center 1
Total: 45

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General Characteristics

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 1.031
  • Wing Loading 51.9lbs/ft2 (253.6kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 754.8ft2 (70.1m2)
  • Drag Points 6749

Parts

  • Number of Parts 182
  • Control Surfaces 9
  • Performance Cost 1,056