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21 May 1969 – first flight of Antonov An-26

20 May 2021 Jacek Domański

Antonov An-26, a twin-engine, turboprop transport aircraft, performed its maiden flight. Antonov An-26 is one of the most-known aircraft designed by the Antonov construction bureau and, at the same time, stays among the best remembered […]

PZL 104 ´Wilga 35A´

27 April 2021 Kacper Kolibowski

PZL 104 ‘Wilga 35A’, STOL utility aircraft (SP-EBK c/n 61123), Aero Club of Włocławek, April 2014. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, the need for a modern, lightweight multipurpose aircraft to be used […]

12 March 1938 – first flight of PZL.44 Wicher

11 March 2021 Kacper Kolibowski

Maiden flight of PZL.44 Wicher (English: Gale), a prototype of Polish two-engine airliner. The inter-war years were a period when aviation truly boomed all over the world. Especially in the 1930s, the popularity of air […]

26 February 1937 – First flight of Fiat G.50 Freccia

26 February 2021 Kacper Kolibowski

First flight of Fiat G.50 Freccia (English: Arrow), an Italian fighter aircraft. The Fiat G.50 Freccia was created to meet the demand of Regia Aeronautica (the Italian Air Force) for a modern interceptor aircraft. In […]

5 February 1960 – maiden flight of PZL TS-11 ´Iskra´

5 February 2021 Jacek Domański

Maiden flight of PZL TS-11 ´Iskra´, a Polish jet trainer aircraft. The idea of creating a jet-powered trainer for the Polish Air Force was born in the middle of 1950s, upon the introduction of jet […]

29 January 2010 – maiden flight of Sukhoi PAK FA

29 January 2021 Jacek Domański

Maiden flight of Sukhoi PAK FA prototype, the aircraft also known as Sukhoi T-50 (company designation) and then as Su-57 (NATO reporting name: Felon, although unconfirmed). The roots of a Russian new generation fighter programme […]

8 January 1948 – maiden flight of Lavochkin La-15

8 January 2021 Jacek Domański

Maiden flight of ´aircraft 174´, the jet aeroplane being a base for an early Soviet fighter, Lavochkin La-15 (Ла-15, NATO reporting name: Fantail) Lavochkin construction bureau, also known as OKB-301, is usually being associated with […]

4 December 1938 – maiden flight of Miles M.18

4 December 2020 Kacper Kolibowski

Miles M.18 aeroplane performed its maiden flight The Miles M.18 was a British light civil utility aircraft designed in late 1930s by Walter G. Capley. This single-engine, twin-seat, low-winged and fixed undercarriage aeroplane was built […]

5 March 1936 – first flight of Supermarine Spitfire

5 March 2020 Kacper Kolibowski

Supermarine Spitfire, a true legend of aviation and one of the most iconic aircraft in history, made its first flight. The history of this legendary aeroplane has begun in 1931, when the British Air Ministry […]

21 December 1988 – maiden flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya

21 December 2019 Jacek Domański

Maiden flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya. Initially developed for the purposes of Soviet space programme ´Buran´ and intended to transport the Buran space-shuttle, Mriya is today the heaviest aircraft ever built, with the maximum take-off […]