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Avia 14-32A (Ilyushin Il-14)

Avia 14-32A / Ilyushin Il-14, manufactured under licence in Czechoslovakia (c/n 805119, formerly OK-MCI of the Czechoslovak Airlines), open-air exhibition in Kbely Aviation Museum, Prague (Letecké muzeum Kbely), August 2022. A short story of development […]

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Mikoyan and Gurevich MiG-29AS

Mikoyan and Gurevich MiG-29AS, NATO reporting name ´Fulcrum´ (c/n 2960535409/4715, ´0921´ of the Slovak Air Force) taxiing at Malacky – Kuchyňa air base, August 2022. Although the MiG-29 was already introduced within our Photo of […]

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Avia B-534 (replica)

Avia B-534 (ultra-light replica, OK-QAB-1), taxiing for the static display of the 24th Aviation Fair air show (Aviatická pouť), Pardubice, May 2014. Avia B-534 was a biplane fighter aircraft, designed in the former Czechoslovakia in […]

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PZL-130 TC-II Orlik

PZL-130 TC-II Orlik (Zespół Akrobacyjny Orlik of the Polish Air Force), flypast during opening ceremony of the 2022 FAI F2 World Championship for Control Line Model Aircraft for Seniors and Juniors in Włocławek, July 2022. […]

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L-60 Brigadýr

L-60 Brigadýr (c/n 150507, OK-LKN), flying display at XVI. European An-2 Meeting, Hradec Králové, August 2012. In the early post-war years, the Czechoslovak Air Force still operated utility and liaison aircraft developed by the Nazi […]

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Pilatus P-2-05

Pilatus P-2-05 (c/n 600-30, OK-PTW, formerly U-110 of the Swiss Air Force), exhibited at Classic Trainers open doors day, Plzeň, May 2022. In the middle of the World War II, the neutral country of Switzerland […]

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Robinson R44 Raven II

Robinson R44 Raven II (SP-SAL, c/n 13130) at static display during the Polish Air Force Day air show,  31st Tactical Air Base, Poznań-Krzesiny, September 2017. In 1979, California-based Robinson Helicopter Company began production of its […]

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Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon S

Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon S (c/n GS016, 30+26 of the Luftwaffe) ‘Atlantic Tiger’, Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74, Luftwaffe – 31st Tactical Air Base, Poznań-Krzesiny, September 2017. The history of this unit of the German Air Force dates […]

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Let Z-37A-C3 Čmelák

Let Z-37A-C3 Čmelák (c/n 25-06, OK-NJD), static display at Aviation Fair air show, Pardubice, May 2014. History of crop dusting or, formally speaking, aerial application, in then-Czechoslovakia dates back to year 1926, when two military […]