F+W C-3605

F+W (EKW) C-3605 ´Schlepp´, HB-RDH (formerly Swiss Air Force C-509), target towing aircraft, taking-off for the flying display at Flugtage Schupfart air show, June 2018. The roots of this interesting aircraft could be found in the Swiss Air Force request for a new multipurpose aircraft, issued in 1935. That new construction was intended to... Read More

Commonwealth CA-13 Boomerang

Commonwealth CA-13 Boomerang A46-139 ‘Phooey’ (NX32CS), taxiing after flying display at Poznań Air Show, May 2018 In 1942, Australia found itself in a difficult situation. The country was at war with Japan, which at that time seemed impossible to stop, but having no guarantee of military equipment support from allied superpowers, as both the... Read More

MAKS-2021 awaits its guests

There is only 274 days to the 2021 edition of the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS, that will be organized between 20th and 25th July 2021 at Zhukovsky airfield, Moscow area. Last week, the organizer of the event – Aviasalon JSC – already disclosed the first information regarding the XV edition and also... Read More

Polikarpov U-2 (Po-2) / У-2 (По-2)

Polikarpov Po-2 (c/n 0076), while performing a flying display during the 2016 edition of Aviatická Pout´ air show, Pardubice, May 2016. U-2 / Po-2 is one of the most known aircraft ever made. Introduced in 1929, under the designation U-2 (´U´ stands for учебный – training) it shortly became an icon of Soviet training... Read More

Tag der Bundeswehr 2021 on 12th June 2021 – save the date!

The German Ministry of Defence already disclosed the date of the annual open doors event of the German armed forces – Tag der Bundeswehr. In 2021, after the one year gap caused by Covid-19, the gates of 16 German military facilities will hopefully open again on 12th June. As usual, the units participating in... Read More

Digital Sanicole Airshow on the air tomorrow!

As we informed you earlier, the digital edition of Sanicole International Airshow would be broadcasted tomorrow, 11th September, starting from 20:00 hours CET. In the eve of this event we are introducing you a few latest news related to the show and also the full line up of Digital Sanicole Airshow. It seems that... Read More

Sanicole Airshow directly at your home!

Cancelling the 2020 edition of Sanicole International Airshow was announced a few months ago, in the advance of coronavirus outbreak and during the troubled times of lockdown. Following the development of events, the Sanicole organization team decided to cancel both events of the Sanicole weekend – the Sunset Airshow on Friday and the main... Read More

2020 air show season – news and updates (6)

The first days of August would seem like the good moment for a brief overview of the current air show season. First of all, we are in the middle of summer holidays and secondly, more than two months passed since our last update. Without a doubt you have noticed that at the end of... Read More

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21UM / МиГ-21УМ

Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21UM (´Mongol-B´) ´9351´, Polish Air Force, exhibited at the static display during a joint event of the 10th anniversary of F-16 service in the Polish Air Force and the Polish Air Force Day, Krzesiny Air Base, 2016. MiG-21 (NATO reporting name Fishbed or Mongol – for training, two seat variants of the... Read More

Beriev Be-200ES ´Altair´ / Бе-200ЧС «Альтаир»

Beriev Be-200ES (No. 21512, named ´Konstantin Babich´) multipurpose jet amphibious aircraft, at the static display during XIV International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2019 in Zhukovsky, Moscow area. In 1980s, the Beriev Design Bureau was working on two projects of new amphibious aircraft – a military anti-submarine A-40 ´Albatross´ with the maximum take-off weight of... Read More