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Hawker Nimrod II
Hawker Nimrod II (c/n 41H-59890, formerly K3661 of the Fleet Air Arm), exhibited at Hangar 2 of the Imperial War Museum Duxford, June 2014. In the middle of 1920s, the Air Ministry began to look […]
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Airbus A319
Airbus A319-115 CJ (c/n 2550, OM-BYA operated by Slovak Government Flight Service, formerly G-NMAK), flying display during Slovak International Air Fest 2016, Sliač, August 2016. Slovak Government Flight Service (Letecký útvar Ministerstva vnútra Slovenskej republiky […]
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Sud Aviation/Aérospatiale SA-316B Alouette III
Sud Aviation/Aérospatiale SA-316B Alouette III (c/n 1247, A-274 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force), flying display during Air Force Days 2013 (Luchtmachtdagen 2013), Volkel air base, June 2013. On 28th February 1959, prototype of Alouette […]
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Poncelet (SABCA) Vivette
Poncelet (SABCA) Vivette (c/n 2, O-BAFH), exhibited in the aviation section of the Royal Museum of Armed Forces and Military History, Brussels, September 2023. In 1920, Georges Néils – World War I aviation lieutenant and […]
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Boeing/Vertol CH-47D Chinook
Boeing/Vertol CH-47D Chinook (c/n M-3666, D-666 ´the Beast´ of the 299th Squadron, the Royal Netherlands Air Force), static display during the 40th Sanicole International Airshow, Hechtel-Eksel, September 2017. On 21st September 1961, a new American […]
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De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide (c/n 6853, D-IKFG, formerly ´NR777´ of the Royal Air Force and ´D-7´ of the Belgian Air Force), flying display at Medieval Mini Tiger Meet 2023, Neuburg a.d. Donau, July 2023. […]
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Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan
Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan (c/n 4616, formerly 42-37620 USAAF, N15KK), flying display at Mini Tiger Meet 2023, Neuburg a.d. Donau, July 2023. In the late 1930s, the Beech Aircraft company developed a new, all-metal light aeroplane, […]
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Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger
Heinkel He 162 A-2 Volksjäger (c/n 120227, formerly VN679 of the RAF), exhibited at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon, London, July 2018. By early 1944, the German aviation authorities slowly began realising that […]
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TL Ultralight TL-3000 Sirius
TL Ultralight TL-3000 Sirius (c/n ?, OK-TAA 54), landing at LKBR / Broumov airfield, Broumov, September 2022. In 2007, during the Aero Fredrichshafen aviation fair, the TL Ultralight company for the first time disclosed to […]
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF LanceR C
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF LanceR C (c/n 96006487, ´6487´ of the Romanian Air Force), static display at Kecskeméti Repülőnap és Haditechnikai Bemutató 2021 (Kecskemet Air Show 2021), Kecskemet, August 2021. The story of MiG-21 in Romanian service […]