Author: Karol

To be honest, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the Polish Aviation Industry did not have a modern piston engine for lightweight aircraft structures. There were two solutions to this situation. Allocate significant amounts of money for own development research of Polish structures, or purchase licenses. Both solutions had advantages and disadvantages. Nevertheless,…

Piper Aircraft is an American company, one of the most recognizable aviation companies in the world. It was founded in September 1927 by brothers Clarence Gilbert Taylor and Gordon A. Taylor in Rochester, New York as Aircraft Manufacturing Company Brothers. A little later it took the name Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corporation. Gordon A. Taylor died…

Despite the permanent crisis in the Polish People’s Republic, the production of PZL-110 Koliber aircraft went forward. The plane was highly appreciated in Aeroclubs. Also, global trends indicated that the market of small aircraft with small, economical engines would continue to develop. There was also the possibility of exporting aircraft manufactured in Poland to the…

Before we discuss the PZL-110 Koliber aircraft, we must move to France, to the town of Tarbes, at the foot of the Pyrenees. Here was located the Morane-Saulnier aircraft factory, transformed into SEMMS, then GEMMS and finally (1966) SOCATA. The history of the construction we are interested in began in 1958. It was then that…

In March 1933, Jerzy Wędrychowski, Stanisław Rogalski and Jerzy Drzewiecki founded the Experimental Aviation Workshops. In 1933, a team of engineers developed the RWD-8 trainer aircraft. The aircraft was selected as a standard training aircraft for the Polish Military Aviation. 100 RWD-8 aircraft were built in the Experimental Aviation Workshops, and another 500 aircraft in…

Aerobatic aircraft Yak-52 registration HA-JAV, serial number 856008, is registered in Hungary. The aircraft was built in 1985. M-14P engine. It was based at Szeged Airport (LHUD). Still in 2022, the plane was painted blue with yellow elements. The plane joined the Slovak aviation demonstration group Retro Sky Team. In 2023, the aircraft received a…

In 1999, the PZL M-26 Iskierka aircraft, serial number 1AP002-01, was bought by a private person in the USA after being built. After many years, the owner decided to sell the plane. In October 2020, the aircraft was put up for sale. A Polish entrepreneur from Nowy Sącz decided to buy the plane. The entire…

The Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków in Czyżyny is the only museum in the world with as many as four Albatros aircraft used during and after the Great World War. These are Albatros C.I reconnaissance aircraft from 1915, Albatros H.I high-altitude aircraft from 1918, Albatros B.IIa training aircraft from 1919, Albatros L-101 training aircraft from…

The Aero L-29 Delfín is a turbojet trainer aircraft developed in Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1950s. The first flight was made on April 5, 1959. Two more similar aircraft were created in communist countries: the Soviet Yakovlev Jak-30 and the Polish PZL TS-11 Iskra. In 1961, in Moscow, during comparative tests, the Polish…