Hi Rumcajs,
Fascinating selection, lovely stuff. I was MOST surprised to see a CAC Sabre there – can’t be many outside Australasia and the US!
Looks like there’s an interesting history behind it too, according to the ADF Serials website.
They have some photos here. I presume the third photo is at Kbely, and I’m curious as to why the port (or both) cannon port has been blanked off. The red star ‘kills’ are a bit of PR spin too! 😀
Cheers
thank you for the info and link;)
Very interesting collection. Lots of types not commonly seen in Western Museum displays.
The Me 109s, what did they reengine those with? Did a double take with those! And the two seater, training version?
it´s Czech version Avia S-199 and traning CS-199. main figter planes of Czechoslovak Air force between 1947 to 1951 (450-551 S-199 and 82 CS-199 were build fot Czechoslovak Air force by Avia and Aero companies). actually it´s Bf-109G-6 with M-211 (Jumo 211f) engine, because some nazi prisoners of the war blew up only one store of DB-601 in Czechoslovakia after WW2. About 40 S-199s (and about 70 Czech spitfires) were delivered to Izrael in 1947-48 and S-199 and Czech spitfires were ones of the several matters of Israeli victory in Izraeli infependent war.
http://forum.valka.cz/download.php/id/769
This Museum is very interesting to me because it has one Yugoslav trainer SOKO 522.The only pictures I found of it are these
this is a page from Letectvi+ Kosmonautika from 1984.
Rumcajs do you have pictures of 522 or have you seen it?Do you now in what condition it is now perhaps? It is supposed to be in very good condition, almost ready to fly.
😮 well I have visited the museum every year since from my young age, but I have never heard that Soko 522 is there, for sure it hasn´t been displayed a lot of years and I never have seen that in Kbely yet. But I heard that Kbely museum has more similar treasures:-)) in deposite.
Rumcajs
Thanks for sharing an excellent selection of images – I like the way your hosting system displays them.
I went to Kbely last year and was really impressed by the scope of exhibits that not only encompass the different eras but embrace civil as well as military aviation history. The quality of some of the replicas that represent extinct types is astounding. I found the staff really helpful. I especially wanted to see the SARO Cloud due to its British origin. As I didn’t notice it in your selection I’ve taken the liberty of attaching one of my shots here. The Cloud was at that time in a building that was not open to the public. It seems there have been several movements since my visit as the Tu104, Il-14, Sabre, An 24 and Il28 etc are now in the museum area rather than on the live airfield.
well Saro Cloud is in depository right now, so I could´n take photo of that, Kbely museum has a small area for whole collection display, for example you cannot see two-seater CS-92/Me-262, some Me-109 or Fw-190, Meteor etc. At last they have renoveted Tu-104A, it´s very important, because Czechoslovak Airlines has been the third in the world that has used jetliner for civilian lines after BOAC and Aeroflot, I have been bashfull to see Tu-104A behind the museum wall and in catastrofical state, the beauty is save now:D . Yeah, outdoor section was completelly reorganised and made bigger, new section with Su and Migs and the museum got new aircraft from Air force like An-24, Mi-2, L-410 etc
btw it´s not Il-14 but Czech made Avia Av-14T :-)))
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