Author: Karol
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Aviation training in Poland. 1920-1921.
In 1920, air training was spontaneously undertaken at Grudziądz Airport. Using the barracks (at today’s Parkowa Street), the infrastructure, hangars and the airport located in the present "Lotnisko" housing estate, or the field airport in Bzów and the Group’s training ground on the left bank of the Vistula. In the years 1920 – 1939, there…
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Aviation training in Poland. 1919-1920.
At the end of the Great World War, in 1918, there were only 14-16 planes, 10 staff and about 100 ground service personnel at Bydgoszcz Airport. Most of them were Poles. There was a school of aviation observers here. At the outbreak of the Greater Poland Uprising, two Polish pilots (Antoni Bartkowiak and Alojzy Błażyński)…
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Aviation training in Poland. 1918-1919.
The Military Aviation School was established on Pole Mokotowskie in Warsaw. It operated from January 1919 to May 1919, when it was reorganized. As a result of its reorganization, another aviation school was established in Krakow. The school in Warsaw was transformed into the Pilots College in Pole Mokotowskie. The school used mainly the equipment…
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PZL I-22 Iryda nb 301 in Mielec. 2022.
But the political atmosphere around the plane was unfavorable. In 2008, the Polish government, formed by the Civic Platform party and the Polish People’s Party, sent 16 PZL I-22 Iryda training and combat aircraft for scrap. When the planes were taken from Mielec to Kutno, the inhabitants of Mielec felt like they were at a…
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PZL TS-11 Iskra bis D No. W1741 in Indian colors. 2022.
The interest of foreign countries in the Polish TS-11 Iskra plane was high. Especially the so-called third world countries. Already in the first half of 1972, the military delegation of the Republic of Iran visited, among others, WOSL in Dęblin, showing particular interest in the TS-11 training plane.
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A new exhibit in Czyżyny. Mikhail Mil Mi-24. 2022.
The first countries to buy Mi-24 A helicopters were: Ethiopia, Algeria, Libya, Vietnam and Afghanistan. But these helicopters had little combat value. Only the modernized version of the Mi-24 D, adopted by the Red Army in 1976, gained recognition in the Warsaw Pact countries. The Mi-24 D helicopters were bought in 1982 by the Hungarian…
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Mierzęcice Pyrzowice airport. 2022.
The Zawiercie – Tarnowskie Góry railway route was built in stages. In 1937, in free Poland, the section Zawiercie – Poręba, 8.10 km long, was first created. Soon the trail was extended to Siewierz by another 6.70 km. The line was single-track. The trail served the goods traffic of nearby workplaces. The line to Tarnowskie…
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Mierzęcice Pyrzowice airport. 2021.
Although in its history, the Mierzęcice Pyrzowice airport had even three runways, the most important was RWY in the east-west direction. The runway was mainly used by the fighter planes of the 39th Fighter Aviation Regiment stationed here, and later the future era of commercial aviation that continues to the present (2022).
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The new exhibit in Czyżyny. Lockheed F-104 S nb MM-6876. 2008.
In total, approximately 2,500 Lockheed F-104 Starfighters of various versions were produced, which served in the aviation of 15 countries: Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, Jordan, Canada, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Taiwan, Turkey, the USA and Italy. Licensed production was started by Canadair in Canada (CF-104), Mitsubishi in Japan (F-104 J) and Italy. In…
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Marine Aviation Squadron in Puck. 1920-1939.
After the Great World War, access to the sea was granted to the Restored Republic of Poland. On February 10, 1920, Poland took over a section of the sea coast which, together with the Hel Spit, was 140 km long, the economically neglected coast of the Baltic Sea. On February 10, 1920, General Józef Haller,…