Poland's 36th Special Air Transport Regiment was officially disbanded on Tuesday following the ceremonial lowering of the regiment's flag at the Warsaw-Okęcie military airport.

It was announced in August 2011, shortly after the appointment of Tomasz Siemoniak as Poland's new Defense Minister, that the regiment would cease its activities.

This decision followed the release of the official Polish report into the Smolensk tragedy, which occurred when a Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft crashed in bad weather killing 96 people, including the country's then president Lech Kaczyński. The report stated that the regiment's pilots were overworked, had been poorly trained and lacked the correct facilities and equipment.

Colonel Mirosław Jemielniak, the last ever commander of the regiment, said at the ceremony that the “last 16 months were a time of big changes, when we tried to regain confidence after the terrible tragedy of April 10. Today I stand before another entity than the one in which this tragedy occurred.”