Category: Aviation industry

A new reality has come. After the German occupation, came the Soviet occupation. The structures of the new state were being built with the blessing of the Kremlin. The first offices of the People’s Republic of Poland and the first ministries were organized. At the same time ruthlessly combating the pre-war legal order. Some people…

In just two decades of the Second Polish Republic, it was possible to create a thriving and high-level Polish Aviation Industry. Dozens of prototypes were developed and hundreds of serial aircraft built that successfully competed with the best Western designs. They were exported to several countries. Both in the form of finished products and licenses.…

General Ludomił Rayski, head of the Aeronautics Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs pursued such a policy that the entire Polish Aviation Industry should be concentrated in state hands. This had good and bad sides. However, for Zakład Plage i Laśkiewicz it meant nationalization or liquidation. This happened when the order for 50 Lublin…

PZL-19 – the first flight in May 1932, tourist, professional, sport aircraft, 1-engine low wing aircraft. The second version of PZL-19/2 flown in January 1933, and the version PZL-19/3 in August 1933.

On January 22, 1925, at the request of the City Council, the City Council of Warsaw decided to buy the areas of Okęcie, Paluch and Służewiec for a modern airport and sports facilities. In 1933, the construction of a new military airport and airport for air communication began at Okęcie. The Mokotów airport was not…

The Experimental Aviation Workshop in short DWL was a Polish aviation company that designed and produced planes under the RWD designation. We can take December 1925 – September 1, 1939 as the time frame.

Baron Stanisław Różyczki de Rosenwerth was a highly educated man. He studied at universities in Western Europe. He was a manufacturer and financier. Clever and resourceful. After Poland regained independence, he returned to his family estate to build a better future. In 1923, enterprising and full of initiative Stanisław Rosenwerth, having learned about the emerging,…

On August 11, 1923, a joint-stock company was established under the name Wielkopolska Wytwórnia Samolotów – Samolot, which became the second company, after Zakłady Mechaniczne E. Plage and T. Laśkiewicz in Lublin, producing airplanes in Poland. The company was founded on the initiative of the president of the Polish Air Force Association, Czesław Wawrzyniak. On…

Zakłady Mechaniczne Emil Plage and Teofil Laśkiewicz in Lublin are undoubtedly the first Polish aviation company. She produced aircraft since 1921. From 1928, she produced her own aircraft constructions, and after nationalization under the name Lublin. In 1935, the factory was nationalized.  

In parallel with the Central Aviation Workshops at the Mokotów Airport, the Polish authorities planned to launch new aviation production plants. In 1921, the Ministry of Military Affairs concluded an agreement with the Francopol Joint Stock Company. The company undertook the production of several thousand airplanes and aircraft engines. The construction of the factory began…