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Zlín Z-22 Junák

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 […]

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Zlín Z-XIII

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 […]

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Zlín Trenér

On 20 October 1947, a new Czechoslovak training aircraft took to the air for the first time. Designed by Karel Tomáš at the Zlín aircraft factory in Otrokovice, the Zlín Z-26 marked the beginning of […]

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Zlín Z-43

Zlín Z-43 (c/n 0102, OK-WOI), exhibited at static display of Den ve vzduchu air show, Plasy, April 2025. In the early 1960s, the Czechoslovak aviation plant in Otrokovice, then named Moravan, národní podnik (Moravan state-owned […]