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2019
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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 […]
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Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan EX (c/n 208B-5252, OK-LOK), static display at Helicopter Show 2019, Hradec Králové, May 2019. In the early 1980s, Pawnee Division of Cessna Aircraft Company introduced into the market its new single-engine […]
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Wolfsberg Aircraft Sparrow ML
Wolfsberg Aircraft Sparrow ML (c/n 011, OK-YUL 36) waiting for permission to take-off from Roudnice nad Labem airfield, June 2019. The beginnings of Wolfsberg Aircraft aviation manufacturer date back to 1995, when the company was […]
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Dornier Do 28D2 Skyservant
Dornier Do 28D2 Skyservant (c/n 4186, D-IRES, formerly 59+11 of the Luftwaffe) taxiing at Roudnice airfield runway during Memorial Air Show 2019, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic, June 2019. Speaking of Dornier Do 28, a […]
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Wagner DOWA 81
Wagner DOWA 81, home-made aircraft, exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. Between 1945 and 1989, approximately four million East Germans moved to the West Germany. Majority of them, 3.45 million people, […]
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Beneš-Mráz Be-60 Bestiola (replica)
Beneš-Mráz Be-60 Bestiola (airworthy replica of ´OK-BEC´, OK-VAU88), waiting for take-off at the 29th edition of Aviatická pouť air show, Pardubice, May 2019. On 1st April 1935, new aviation manufacturing company was established in Choceň, […]
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Zlín Z-381
Zlín Z-381 (c/n 145, OK-BSA), a Czechoslovak derivative of Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann training aircraft, flying display at 29th edition of Aviatická pout airshow, Pardubice, May 2019. At the end of the 1930s, the Bü […]
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Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jet E
Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jet E (c/n E33, 705-FJ of the French Air Force / Armée de l’Air), static display at Kleine-Brogel air base spotter day, September 2019. In the early 1960s, European NATO countries […]