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Let L-200D Morava

Let L-200D Morava (c/n 171206, OK-NXX), flying display during an open doors event in Aeroklub Jaroměř, May 2015. In 1955, aviation plant in Kunovice, then known as Strojírny první pětiletky (Machine Works of the First […]

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Aero L-39ZA Albatros

Aero L-39ZA Albatros (c/n 232409, formerly ´109´ of the Romanian Air Force, N214AX, Airborne Tactical Advantage Co. Ltd), static display at Phantom Pharewell event, Wittmundhafen, June 2013. Only three years after introducing Aero L-29 Delfín, […]

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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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Avia BH-5

Avia BH-5 (c/n 02, OK-BOS), flying display during Točna Airport open day, Prague, September 2022. On 14th June 1923, new Czechoslovak aircraft, designated Avia BH-5, took-off for its maiden flight. The aeroplane was created by […]

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Avia B-534 (replica)

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 […]

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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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Let Z-37A-C3 Čmelák

Let Z-37A-C3 Čmelák (c/n 25-06, OK-NJD), static display at Aviation Fair air show, Pardubice, May 2014. History of crop dusting or, formally speaking, aerial application, in then-Czechoslovakia dates back to year 1926, when two military […]

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Avia BH-1

Avia BH-1 (airworthy replica, OK-GUU 25 ), flying display at Den ve vzduchu s Plzeňským krajem air show, Plasy, April 2022. On 19th June 1919, two Czech engineers, Pavel Beneš and Miroslav Hajn, founded an […]