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Mil Mi-24V
Mil Mi-24V (c/n 087358 and c/n 087354, ´7358´ and ´7354´ of the Czech Air Force), flying display at the Czech International Air Fest 2010, Hradec Králové, September 2010. In August of 1978, the first Mi-24D […]
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Aerotechnik L-13SW Vivat
Aerotechnik L-13SW Vivat (c/n 890307, OK-7107, formerly OK-9100), exhibited on static display during this year´s first edition of Letiště Točná (Točná Airport) open day, Prague, March 2025. The L-13 Vivat motor glider is a derivative […]
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Mudry CAP 10B
Mudry CAP 10B (c/n 122, F-GOUM, formerly ´122´ of the French Air Force), flying display at Flugtage Fricktal-Schupfart 2018, Schupfart, July 2018. In 1958, the French aviation enthusiast and professional pilot, Auguste Mudry, founded his […]
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Wright Flyer III
Wright Flyer III (replica), flying display during the 21st edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, June 2011. On 17th December 1903, near Kill Devil Hills in the vicinity of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, […]
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Bensen B-8M Gyrocopter
Bensen B-8M Gyrocopter, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. In 1952, Igor Bensen, a Russian emigrant to the United States, founded an aviation company named Bensen Aviation Corporation. Located at Raleigh-Durham airport […]
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II
Hawker Hurricane Mk II (c/n 41H/469290, LF363, the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight), static display at 21st Aviatická pouť (Aviation Fair) air show, Pardubice, May 2011. The Hawker Hurricane was the first, […]
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AT-6C Texan / Harvard Mk IIa
North American AT-6C-15-NT Texan / Harvard Mk IIa (c/n 88-13651, N696RE, formerly 7696 of the South African Air Force), exhibited during open doors day at Classic Trainers / Hangar 3 collection, Plzeň-Líně, May 2024. In […]
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Vertol V-43 / Piasecki H-21C
Vertol V-43 / Piasecki H-21C (c/n WG7, formerly 83+07 of Heeresfliegertruppe / the German Army Aviation Corps), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. In January of 1944, the American aviation engineer and […]
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Christen Eagle II
Christen Eagle II (c/n PFA 138-14627, OK-IGL), flying display at Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. In the 1960s, Frank L. Christensen, an American student of the senior year at Stanford […]
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Fairchild Model 24
Fairchild Model 24 W46 (c/n W-46-251, formerly N8155) exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. The economic downturn of the early 1930s, caused by the Great Depression, forced the Fairchild Aviation Corporation […]