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Siemetzki ASRO 4

Siemetzki ASRO 4 (c/n 1, no registration) experimental rotorcraft, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. The story of amateur-built ASRO rotorcraft begins on 4th September 1930. On that day, Alfons Siemetzki was […]

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PZL M18A Dromader

PZL M18A Dromader (c/n 1Z021-13, OK-TGH), part of the Agroair company fleet, Chrudim airfield, December 2024. Do dromedary camels hibernate in winter? Definitely yes, when it comes to those made of metal and able to […]

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SIAI-Marchetti SF-260D

SIAI-Marchetti SF-260D (c/n 842, ST-42 of the Belgian Air Component), static display during spotter day 2024 at Kleine-Brogel air base, Kleine-Brogel, September 2024. In the early 1960s, Stelio Frati, an Italian mechanical engineer and aeroplane […]

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Bellanca 7GCBC Citabria

Bellanca 7GCBC Citabria (c/n 215-70, OK-LOL), taxiing for take-off during the 32nd edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2024. The story of Citabria aircraft began in the mid-1940s, when Aeronca Company (contracted from […]

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Mráz M-1C Sokol

Mráz M-1C Sokol (c/n 142, OK-CSR from Točná Aviation Museum), exhibited during the open doors afternoon event at Letiště Točná / Točná Airport, Prague, October 2024. On 9th March 1946, the first post-war Czechoslovak aircraft […]

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Tupolev Tu-154M

Tupolev Tu-154M (c/n 89A-815, RA-85849 of КОСМОС производственное объединение / KOSMOS Airlines), approaching runway of Václav Havel Airport Prague, January 2013. Tupolev Tu-154 – together with two other airliners, Ilyushin Il-62 and Tupolev Tu-134 – […]

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Aero A-10

Aero A-10 (c/n 3, L-BALB), exhibited at Kbely Aviation Museum, Prague (Letecké muzeum Kbely), August 2022. In 1921, one of the pioneering Czechoslovak air carrier companies, Československá letecká akciová společnost – Čs.L.A.S. (Czechoslovak aviation joint-stock […]

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Schleicher ASH 26 E

Schleicher ASH 26 E (c/n 26145, D-KSBS) self-powered glider, static exhibition during open doors event at Aeroklub Broumov, Broumov, August 2024 At the beginning of the 1990s, Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co. aviation company developed […]