Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19PM (c/n 651045, formerly “1045” of Československé letectvo / the Czechoslovak Air Force), on display at an intersection in Líně, near the Plzeň-Líně airfield, July 2025 At the beginning of the 1950s, the Soviet […]
Ilyushin Il-28U (c/n 610501, formerly “CD-10”, later “0501”, of the Czechoslovak Air Force), exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely Aviation Museum), Prague, September 2025. In June 1948, the Soviet authorities officially launched a development programme […]
On 23 October 2025, the Czech Air Force bade farewell to its last Mil Mi-8 helicopter. Almost six decades of the rotorcraft active service officially came to an end during a solemn ceremony held at […]
L-60 Brigadýr (c/n 150507, OK-LKN) and Zlín Z-126 Trenér (c/n 525, OK-DVG, formerly UC-38 of the Czechoslovak Air Force), static display at Točná Airport open doors day / the 3rd Trenér Meeting, Prague, October 2024. […]
Sukhoi Su-7BM (c/n 5516, formerly ´5516´ of the Czechoslovak Air Force), static display at open doors event at 21st Tactical Air Base, Čáslav, May 2023. On 14th May 1953, Pavel Sukhoi was appointed the Chief […]
Já, UPÍR, přistání povoluji! (English: This is Vampire, you´re cleared for landing) is a temporary exhibition at the Museum of Eastern Bohemia (Muzeum východních Čech) in Hradec Králové. The display is dedicated to Czechoslovak Air […]
Avia B-534 (ultra-light replica, OK-QAB-1), taxiing for the static display of the 24th Aviation Fair air show (Aviatická pouť), Pardubice, May 2014. Avia B-534 was a biplane fighter aircraft, designed in the former Czechoslovakia in […]
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 […]
Mikoyan MiG-29 (NATO reporting name ´Fulcrum´), although still being in active service, is usually associated as one of the most iconic aircraft of the late Cold War years. And yet, interestingly, that fighter jet returned […]
More than 74 years ago, on 20th October 1947, new Czechoslovak monoplane took-off for the first time. Commonly known as Zlín Trenér (English: trainer), the aircraft gave start for an entire series of Czechoslovak aerobatic […]
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