Author: Karol

The airport was built during the German occupation. In 1945, it was occupied by Muscovites. In 1948, the Soviet army placed the airport under the administration of the Polish Army. From that moment on, the name Mierzęcice Airport came into use, after the town located nearby, which currently has the status of a commune. This…

In 2012, several military exhibits were collected at the Wilamowo airport. There were three aircraft among them. The most interesting was the PZL TS-11 aircraft, which was used by the army in India. India was the only country to buy PZL TS-11 aircraft for its own military, apart from Poland. The PZL TS-11 Iskra nb…

In 2015, the Poznań Aero Club decided to buy the Kąkolewo Airport from the Military Property Agency. On January 11, 2016, the airport was entered into the register of landing sites kept by the Civil Aviation Office under number 343. In April 2017, the Aero Club officially became the owner of the airport. Thanks to…

Kąkolewo is a town in the Republic of Poland, located in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, in Grodzisk County, in the Grodzisk Wielkopolski Commune. It is only 5 km from Kąkolewo to Grodzisk Wielkopolski. The first mention of the town dates back to 1415, when the town was called Kankolewo. The rights of the Olęder settlement…

The village of Krępsko is located on the National Road No. 11, on the Piła – Jastrowie section. The village is located on the Rurzyca River, at its confluence with the Gwda River, in the Trzebieskie forests. The village of Krępsko has a population of 300 inhabitants.

Geographically and historically, Arłamów is located in the Bieszczady Mountains. According to tradition, the name of the town comes from the so-called arłamans (vagabonds) who settled here during the times of the Russian princes. The town was re-located under Wallachian law at the end of the 15th century by Jan Herburt (Arłamowski) (1470–1508) – a…

General Ludomił Rayski, head of the Aeronautics Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs, pursued a policy to concentrate the entire Polish Aviation Industry in state hands. There were good and bad sides to this action. However, for the Plage and Laśkiewicz Plant it meant nationalization or liquidation. At that time, the factory in Lublin…

Zakłady Mechaniczne Emil Plage i Teofil Laśkiewicz in Lublin is the first Polish Aviation Factory. The plant had been producing aircraft since 1921. From 1928, he produced his own structures under the name Lublin. The plant was nationalized in 1935. On September 1, 1939, Germanic troops invaded Poland, starting World War II. On September 17,…

After a dozen or so years, the Polish Air Force returned to good old practices. The idea is to re-start training pilots and aircraft crews in the use of airport road sections. According to available information, the last exercises of this type took place in 2006. After this year, Freemasonry in Poland began to liquidate…