Museum Archives

Knoller C.II

3 February 2026 Jacek Domański

Knoller C.II (c/n 119.15, formerly in service with Kaiserliche und Königliche Luftfahrtruppen / the Austro-Hungarian Aviation Troops), on display at the National Technical Museum in Prague, April 2025. The outbreak of the Great War led […]

Hunting (Percival) P.66 Pembroke C.54

23 December 2025 Jacek Domański

Hunting (Percival) P.66 Pembroke C.54 (c/n 105, formerly “SE+515” and “5408” of the German Naval Aviation / Marineflieger), exhibited at the Aeronauticum aviation museum, Nordholz, June 2019. The history of the Pembroke transport aircraft began […]

Zlín Z-22 Junák

9 December 2025 Jacek Domański

Zlín Z-22 Junák (c/n 82, OO-FRE) light sport aircraft, exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely Aviation Museum), Prague, September 2025. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the Zlín aviation plant in Otrokovice […]

Visionary engineer and aviation pioneer – the world of Hugo Junkers by Technikmuseum „Hugo Junkers“ Dessau

4 December 2025 Jacek Domański

In 1892, Hugo Junkers, a young German engineer, founded his first company, simply named Hugo Junkers, Civil-Ingenieur (Hugo Junkers, Civil Engineer). Within two decades, Junkers had transformed his small workshop into a technological empire and […]

Zlín Z-XIII

2 December 2025 Jacek Domański

Zlín Z-XIII (prototype, OK-TBZ), a Czechoslovak sports aircraft, exhibited in the National Technical Museum, Prague, April 2025. In the mid-1930s, several aviation companies developed so-called “fast courier aircraft” – small touring and sports aeroplanes characterised […]

Ilyushin Il-28U / CB-228

25 November 2025 Jacek Domański

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 […]

Aero A-18C

14 October 2025 Jacek Domański

Aero A-18C (c/n ?, “Black 5”) racing aircraft, exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely Aviation Museum), Prague, September 2025. In March 1923, a new biplane fighter developed by the Aero aviation company, designated the A-18, […]

VFW 614

7 October 2025 Jacek Domański

VFW 614 (c/n G18, D-AXDB, formerly 17+02 of Luftwaffe / the German Air Force), exhibited at the Aeronauticum Nordholz aviation museum, June 2019. The VFW 614 (also known as the VFW-Fokker 614) was a twin-engine […]

Anatra Anasal

30 September 2025 Jacek Domański

Anatra Anasal (c/n 010.91?, formerly “11120” of Letecký sbor Československé armády / Aviation Corps of the Czechoslovak Army), exhibited in the National Technical Museum, Prague, April 2025. In 1911, Russian aviation pioneer Артур Антонович Анатра […]

Aviation treasures – the National Technical Museum in Prague

24 September 2025 Jacek Domański

Národní technické muzeum (the National Technical Museum (NTM), the largest institution of its kind in the Czech Republic, houses an extensive collection of technical artefacts. As of 2023, the museum’s collection comprised around eighty thousand […]