Douglas A-26B Invader (c/n: 28044, formerly 44-34765 USAAF / NL67160), exhibited at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, September 2016. The A-26 was developed in the early 1940s as […]
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (c/n 580-8967, 94+47), formerly German Air Force, exhibited at Deutsches Museum / Flugwerft Schleissheim, Munich, October 2019. On 22nd March 1948, a new American subsonic jet trainer, successfully performed its maiden […]
Bücker Bü 133C Jungmeister (c/n 1010, G-BUTX), exhibited at Hangar 3 of the Classic Trainers association, Plzeň-Líně airfield, October 2021. At first, there was a Bücker Bü 131 Jungmann (Engl.: freshman, young man), the first […]
Cessna T-37B-CE Tweet (c/n 40978, formerly 66-8002 USAF), exhibited in Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, Germany; June 2018. From its creation in December of 1947, the independent US Air Force struggled with significantly downsized training structures. All primary […]
Junkers F 13 passenger aircraft (c/n 2018 or 2019, D-366), exhibited at Deutsches Museum Munich, October 2013. At the end of 1918, when the Great War was over, Hugo Junkers and his construction team had […]
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 […]
Aero Ae-45S Super (DM-SGF, formerly HA-DMD, c/n 04-013), on display at Luftfahrtmuseum Wernigerode, June 2018. A few months ago, within this weekly series, we have already introduced the history of Ae-45 / Ae-145 light utility […]
Junkers A50ci ´Junior´, exhibited at Deutsches Museum Munich, October 2013 In the early years of aviation, an aircraft was usually associated with a wooden structure, strengthened with wires and being partially covered by fabric. That […]
The city of Friedrichshafen is inextricably linked to the history of German aviation. Here, on the northern shoreline of Bodensee (English: Lake Constance), Count Ferdinand of Zeppelin located his dirigible factory and developed his famous […]
Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152 experimental interceptor aircraft, Central Air Force Museum in Monino, July 2017. In the mid-1950s, the Soviet air defence forces were in a desperate need of modern interceptor aircraft. The perfect air defence fighter […]
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