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Lockheed L-10A Electra

Lockheed Model 10 Electra (Electra 10-A, c/n 1091, N241M), flying display at Airport Točna open day, September 2021. In the early 1931, the American public was shocked by a tragic aviation accident. A Fokker F-10 […]

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Ilyushin Il-18B

Ilyushin Il-18B (c/n 189001604, OK-NAA, formerly operated by Československé aerolinie), exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely aviation museum), Prague, September 2021. In the mid-1950s, the piston-powered passenger aircraft were being slowly replaced by faster and […]

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Douglas DC-3A

Douglas DC-3A (c/n 2204, HB-IRJ, Super Constellation Flyers Association), flying display at Red Bull Air Race, Gdynia, July 2014. The story of the legendary aeroplane the DC-3 undoubtedly is, began in the first half of […]

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Lisunov Li-2

Lisunov Li-2 (c/n 18433209, HA-LIX – Goldtimer Foundation) utility and passenger aircraft, performing a flying display during the 2019 Memorial Air Show, Roudnice nad Labem, June 2019 In 1935, the Soviet aviation authorities have acquired […]

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Yakovlev Yak-42D / Як-42

Yakovlev Yak-42D ´RA-42438´, operated by Saratov Airlines (Саратовские авиалинии / Саравиа), approaching Prague-Ruzyně airport, January 2014. In the beginning, there was a Yakovlev Yak-40 – an iconic passenger jet aircraft from the Soviet era, designed […]

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Tupolev Tu-144D / Ту-144Д

Face-to-face with Tupolev Tu-144D / Ту-144Д (CCCP-77115), a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner (SST), exhibited at XIII International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017, July 2017. On 31st December 1968, the first prototype of Tu-144 performed its […]