Category: Airplanes

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…

The 1960s were a period of development of a new class of aircraft, the so-called business jets. These are business jets powered by turbojet and then turbofan engines. Airplanes have become very popular among celebrities, artists, singers, industrialists and millionaires. At that time, it seemed that the fleet of these aircraft would develop and expand…

The Canadair CL-415 is an aircraft specially developed as a firefighting aircraft using dropped water bombs. The aircraft belongs to amphibious aircraft, i.e. it is capable of landing both on land (RWY) and on water. The aircraft is specifically designed for aerial firefighting, but can perform other tasks as well; search and rescue (SAR missions)…

1 F-16 C nb 4040 nr 03-0040 JC-1. Delivered 11.12.2008. Built on March 14, 2006 It remained in the US as a production benchmark. Then used for testing weapons, equipment and software of the Polish version of the F-16. Supplied with the last two F-16 C.

The F-16 multi-role combat aircraft is a single- or two-seater, single-engine medium wing aircraft. It was built in a classic layout. Multi-role with increased possibilities of air combat and attacking ground targets, also at night. The structure of the airframe is designed to withstand overloads of +9g, -3g.

The chapter discusses the four-year period of Poland’s preparation for the adoption of WSB, i.e. the period from the moment of awarding the tender to the moment of accepting the first machines, and strictly from December 27, 2002 to November 8, 2006. As we found out, it was a very important period in the history…