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 […]
Avia Av-14FG (c/n 079806101, 6102), a photogrammetric aircraft re-built from Avia Av-14-32 (license built Ilyushin Il-14M), currently under restoration in Kbely Aviation Museum, Prague (Letecké muzeum Kbely), September 2021. It´s no exaggeration to say that […]
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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