Category: Airplanes

The Sukhoi Su-20 nb 6256 aircraft No. 74416 was the 23rd of this type among 27 used in the Polish Army. The aircraft was delivered in 1976. After service, as a private exhibit, it was placed at a petrol station (Bliska / Lotos) on the S7 road, Grójec-Białobrzegi, in Broniszew 105.

Glasair Aviation was founded in 2001, after the collapse of its predecessor, Stoddard-Hamilton Aircraft, owned by Tom Hamilton. The company operated from 1979 to 2001. Tom Hamilton and Thomas Wathen founded a new company, Glasair Aviation. The company’s headquarters is in Arlington, Washington, USA. In July 2012, the company was sold to Jilin Hanxing Group,…

In September 2022, it was reported that LOT Polish Airlines had begun withdrawing Bombardier DHC 8 Q 400 aircraft from service. It seemed that this was a decision preceded by analyzes and logical. Bombardier DHC 8 Q 400 aircraft have been used by PLL LOT since 2012, in the amount of 12 copies. During the…

LFG Roland D.VI aircraft was a German aircraft developed at the end of the Great World War. The aircraft was designed at the Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft factory in Berlin, which is why the aircraft was marked with the abbreviation LFG. The aircraft made its first flight in January 1918.

The Halberstadt CL.II construction was assigned a large spectrum of tasks; from hunting, through reconnaissance (assault) to reconnaissance tasks. The planes were to operate in groups and cover each other. Serial production began and then the aircraft was designated Halberstadt CL.II. Production was also started in other factories. In total, about 1,200 aircraft were built.

Fokker E.V plane (D.VIII) is a single-seat, light fighter aircraft from the period of the Great World War. The aircraft was developed by engineer Reinhold Platz. The prototype flew in the spring of 1918. Only a small number of planes made it to the front before the armistice was announced. Initially, the aircraft was marked…

The DFW C.V aircraft belonged to a family of Germanic aircraft developed for the Great World War in 1916. The family included airplanes; DFW C.II, DFW C.IV, DFW C.V, DFW C.VI and DFW F37. Initially, the planes were supposed to be reconnaissance only, but they were quickly armed with one machine gun on a turntable…

Aero L-60 Brigadyr is a light Czechoslovak aircraft adapted for liaison, dispatch and tourist operations. The aircraft was tried to be adapted to sanitary and agro-aviation tasks. In both of these tasks, the plane failed. There was a proposal to produce the aircraft as an armed, so-called counter-partisan, which was not implemented.

The entire history of the Sukhoi Su-22 M 4 K nb 22 aircraft is not known. Perhaps it was one of the aircraft that was not suitable for flights due to damage to the airframe structure. It may have been a non-flying aircraft donated by the CCCP as a teaching aid to technicians. This story…

Our politicians and the military encountered the MiG-23 aircraft for the first time when they were looking for a successor to the Il-28 bomber aircraft. The last 6 bombers were decommissioned in 1979, but for the entire decade they were no longer of any combat value. CCCP offered us MiG-23 BN or Su-20 aircraft. Both…