Museum Archives

Living history day – the 80th anniversary of the air battle over the Ore Mountains

19 February 2025 Jacek Domański

On 11th September 1944, a formation of B-17G Flying Fortress bombers from the 100th Bomb Group of the Eight Air Force USAAF, took-off for another mission against Germany. The target of the day were oil […]

Vertol V-43 / Piasecki H-21C

18 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Vertol V-43 / Piasecki H-21C (c/n WG7, formerly 83+07 of Heeresfliegertruppe / the German Army Aviation Corps), exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. In January of 1944, the American aviation engineer and […]

Fairchild Model 24

4 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Fairchild Model 24 W46 (c/n W-46-251, formerly N8155) exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. The economic downturn of the early 1930s, caused by the Great Depression, forced the Fairchild Aviation Corporation […]

Siemetzki ASRO 4

21 January 2025 Jacek Domański

Siemetzki ASRO 4 (c/n 1, no registration) experimental rotorcraft, exhibited at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg (Bückeburg Helicopter Museum), June 2023. The story of amateur-built ASRO rotorcraft begins on 4th September 1930. On that day, Alfons Siemetzki was […]

Mráz M-1C Sokol

17 December 2024 Jacek Domański

Mráz M-1C Sokol (c/n 142, OK-CSR from Točná Aviation Museum), exhibited during the open doors afternoon event at Letiště Točná / Točná Airport, Prague, October 2024. On 9th March 1946, the first post-war Czechoslovak aircraft […]

Aero A-10

26 November 2024 Jacek Domański

Aero A-10 (c/n 3, L-BALB), exhibited at Kbely Aviation Museum, Prague (Letecké muzeum Kbely), August 2022. In 1921, one of the pioneering Czechoslovak air carrier companies, Československá letecká akciová společnost – Čs.L.A.S. (Czechoslovak aviation joint-stock […]