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Embraer 190LR

Embraer 190LR (ERJ-190-100LR, c/n: 19000435, OE-IHG of NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH) taxiing at Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Munich, October 2012. The E190 is one of the aircraft belonging to the Embraer E-Jet family – narrow body, […]

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Boeing 777-300ER

Boeing 777-300ER (c/n 33416, All Nippon Airways, JA782A), landing at the runway of Franz Josef Strauss airport, Munich, October 2012. The Boeing 777, commonly known as the ´Triple Seven´, performed its first flight on 12th […]

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IAR 99 Șoim

IAR 99 Șoim (s/n 7505305, ´709´ of the Romanian Air Force), flying display at Bucharest International Air Show 2012, Bucharest, July 2012. In the mid-1970s, Romanian aviation industry began development of a new advanced trainer […]

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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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IAR 80

IAR 80 replica (´112´ of the Royal Romanian Air Force), exhibited at Muzeul Naţional al Aviaţiei Române (National Romanian Aviation Museum) in Bucharest, March 2012. Shortly after the end of the Great War, many European […]

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF (c/n 967801, ex-Slovak Air Force ´7801´), NATO reporting name ´Fishbed-J´, static display during Slovak International Air Fest air show, Sliać air base, September 2012. At the end of 1961, the first four MiG-21 […]

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Sukhoi Su-31M

Sukhoi Su-31M (OK-HXC, c/n 0601), Aerobatic Freestyle Challenge, Prague, June 2012. Usually, when we think about aircraft designed by Sukhoi construction bureau, combat aeroplanes are the first that comes to mind. And indeed, military aircraft […]