Boeing E-3A Sentry (LX-N 90450, c/n 22845, NATO E-3A Component), in flight over the Czech Republic, November 2021. In the 1970s, the NATO authorities identified the need of acquiring a fleet of an Airborne Early […]
Junkers Ju 52/3m (assembled in Spain as CASA 325L, c/n 13, F-AZJU), Amicale Jean Baptiste Salis, Plzeň/Líně airfield, September 2018. The Ju 52 was created in 1930, initially being just another single-engine aircraft representing the […]
Sukhoi Su-31 (reg. LY-LJK, c/n 35125) and Jurgis Kairys at the controls, getting ready for departure, Lotnicza Majówka Iława, May 2019, Poland. A brief history of that ´aerobatic beast´ – which Su-31 undoubtedly is – […]
Fieseler Fi 103 (also known as Vergeltungswaffe 1 / V-1) flying bomb, exhibited at Deutsches Museum in Munich, October 2012. The idea of an unmanned aircraft able to strike on remote targets is virtually as […]
Ilyushin Il-78M-90A / Ил-78М-90А, NATO reporting name ´Midas´ (c/n 02-01, Russian Aerospace Forces RF-78741), prototype of aerial tanker based on an Ilyushin Il-76MD-90 strategic airlifter, static display at MAKS aviation fair, August/September 2019. The first […]
Waco YKS-6 (c/n 4504, NC16512), static exhibition during an open-doors event at Točná airfield, September 2021. Weaver Aircraft Company of Ohio, as the company was initially named, was founded in 1920. It was a joint […]
Bücker Bü 133C Jungmeister (c/n 1010, G-BUTX), exhibited at Hangar 3 of the Classic Trainers association, Plzeň-Líně airfield, October 2021. At first, there was a Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann (Engl.: freshman, young man), the first […]
Cessna T-37B-CE Tweet (c/n 40978, formerly 66-8002 USAF), exhibited in Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, Germany; June 2018. From its creation in December of 1947, the independent US Air Force struggled with significantly downsized training structures. All primary […]
Dassault Falcon DA20 ECM electronic warfare aircraft, the Royal Norwegian Air Force ´053´, exhibited at static display during Kleine-Brogel spotterday, September 2019. Falcon 20 is originally a business jet, designed and produced by Dassault Aviation. […]
Pitts S-2S Special (c/n S.18, G-EWIZ) aerobatic biplane, flying display at 40th International Sanicole Airshow, September 2017. Pitts Special is a common name used for light aerobatic biplanes, designed by Curtis Pitts in the 1940s. […]
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