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Launch of the 2025 aviation season – Točná open day
With March already here, the first signs of spring made it clear that grey and gloomy days are over, and it was finally the time to launch the 2025 season. And, similarly to 2022, for […]
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Afternoon with the iconic Czechoslovak aircraft – October Zlín Meeting at Točná Airport
On Saturday, 12th October 2024 another edition of open doors afternoon event was held at Letiště Točná / Točná Airport in Prague, the Czech Republic. This time, the event was organised in the eve of […]
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L-60 Brigadýr / Zlín Z-126 Trenér
L-60 Brigadýr (c/n 150507, OK-LKN) and Zlín Z-126 Trenér (c/n 525, OK-DVG, formerly UC-38 of the Czechoslovak Air Force), static display at Točná Airport open doors day / the 3rd Trenér Meeting, Prague, October 2024. […]
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Zlín Z-526 AFS Akrobat Special
Zlín Z-526 AFS Akrobat Special (c/n 1301, D-EWBA, formerly SP-ENA), static display at Letiště Točná (Tocna Airport) open day, Prague, May 2024. The Z-526 AFS is an aerobatic aircraft belonging to family of training aeroplanes […]
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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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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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Perfect opening of the Czech air show season – Den ve vzduchu 2022
Aviation event held annually at Aeroklub Plasy airfield is the traditional opener of the Czech air show season. This year, the show returned after a two-year gap caused by coronavirus outbreak – and it was […]
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Great collection of classic aircraft – Classic Trainers (Hangar 3)
At the beginning of October 2021 we had a possibility to visit a historical aircraft collection located in western Bohemia, at Plzeň-Lině airfield. The Classic Trainers association – similarly to Točna aviation museum we have […]