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D-52  Junkers Ju 52/3. Thirteen machines  were restored after the end of hostilities. Some od them served with No 1 Transport Regiment, used for dropping or airlifting. Three BMW 132 A-1 engines of 660 hp each, top speed 287 km.p.h., service ceiling 6 300 m, range 990 km.Span 29.25 m, length 18.90 m, empty weight 5 800 m. Composite propellers, fixed undercarriage. Fuselage, wings as well as tailplane and control surfaces steel-framed and covered by corrugated dural. In  1945 the Ju 52 type was really yesterday`s aircraft.

 

   

S-95.Twenty four in 1944 Soviet-made Lavochkin La 5 FN fighters were bought by the Cz Gvt from the Soviet Union but their service in the Cz AF proved to be short-lived - the last ones were withdrawn from use even in  1948 due to wood-framed wings and semicircular plywood fuselage construction. Empty weight 2 605 kg, length 8.67 m, span 9.80 m. A three-blade composite propeller, an 1 850 hp AS-82FN engine ,top speed  640 km p.h. ,service ceiling 9 500 m and range of 765 km. Armament : two 20 mm-cal. synchronized cannons.

 

 
 
   
 

K-62 Polikarpov Po-2. Able to land anywhere, this biplane was ideal aircraft for transport of wounded and sick ones as well as for liasion, diversion and intruding duties.  Wood-framed wings, tailplane, fin and tail control surfaces fabric-covered.Wood-framed fuselage of plywood and fabric skinning. Empty weight of 750 kg, span 11.40 m, length 8.17 m A powerplant of 125 M 11 D, top speed 150 km.p.h., service ceiling 3 300 m and range 700 km. More than fourty th Po-2s built.

 

 
   

B-33 ground attack armoured Ilyushin 10 aircraft was built under a Soviet licence in the Avia Aeroplane Works from 1953 to 1955. Being in service till early 60s, this type was flown at the Stichovice AF from Sept 1, 1951 and at the Prostejov air base in the 1955-1957 period. Bombload of 500-700kg accomodated in two hull bombays -one bomb in each -and two ones in racks under wings, where also four RS-82 or RS-132, respectively RS-130 rackets were hung.

 

 

 
   
 

B-33 Il-10 was as well as its predecessor Il2m3 used for attacking tanks, fortifications and dive or carpet bombing. Entering production in Oct 1944, this type was appreciated by its pilots for an instant reaction to a stick and very good maneuverability, because even a basic aerobatics could be performed on it. The Cz AF used only the Il-10M version. Compared with the Il2m3, Ilyushin 10`s empty weight of 4 680 kg was by 360 kg higher, but the length of 11.20 m was by 45 cm shorter as well as span of 13.40 m by 1.2 m narrower.

 

 
   

The front part of B-33`s  fuselage was of armoured mould-construction, the rear one was of the duralmin semicircular mould one.The Il 10M version flown by the Czechoslovak pilots was of the latter made of metal. Alclad steel-framed wings as well as taiplane and fin, the steel-framed control surfaces covered by fabric. Dural cowling. Armament  four wing-mounted NS-23 cannons of 23-mm cal with 150 shots each and a UNT-20 cannon of a 23mm-cal also with 150 shots flanking the rear. Members retracted upwards into the wing and a tail wheel into a hull.

 
 
   
 

B-33 Il-10 was powered by a in-line M 42 engine of 2000 hp driving an articulated three-blade composite propeller, top speed of 530 km.p.h., service ceiling 7 250 m and range 830 km. The Soviet-built machines had armoured also a gunner post in comparison with the Czech-ones. In addition to the UNT-20 cannon, there was also a container with the DAG-10 grenades at the gunner`s disposal. The camouflage pattern born by the B-33 ground attack armoured planes was standard one - green on the upper surface and light blue on the lower ones.

 

                 

 
   

B-33 The emblem just being painted is of the No 30 Ostravsky Ground Attack Regiment. Its name comes from the members of the No.3 Ground Attack Bomber Regiment of the First Mixed Air Division who had liberated the Ostrava region from April 12th to May 6th, 1945 flying the Il2m3 type. But range of Il2m3 was by 230 km shorter and service ceiling even by 3 250 m lower. That reason for only Il-10s and its dual control Il-10UT version were turned out from the 1953 year.

 

                            

 
 
   
 

S-199 Because DB 605 engines needed for a post-war production of Bf 109s were in short supply in the Avia Co, there were used the Jumo 211 F powerplants originally fitted into Heinkel 111 bombers. That reason for there were several significant differences between S-99 and S-199 types - the S-199`s empty weight was by 340 kg higher,  top speed only of 440 km.p.h. ie by 160 km.p.h. slower, service ceiling of 9 000 m ie by 1 000 m lower and performance of Jumo 211 F by 60 hp lower in comparison with DB 605s.

 
   

CS-199 Sinultanously with the S-199s also the two-seat version was being built in the Avia Co  from 1945 to 1949 . The CS-199 type was equipped by dual control incl an instrument panel and that reason for a hull fuel tank had to be made smaller. That is why CS 199s bore an additional fuel tank below the fuselage. Comparing the S-199 a CS-199 types, the empty weight of the latter was by 30 kg higher and top speed by10 km.p.h. slower. Due to the reaction and momentum of the Jumo 211 F engine multiplied by the propeller, S-199s as well as CS-199s tended to swerve while taking off and lots of pilots were killed flying them - even the Avia Co`s test pilot Antonin Kraus.

 

 

 
 
   
 

K-68 Piper L-4 was aircraft of American origin used for both military and civil flying. Steel-tube-welded frame was of fabric skinning. Short held-off despite the empty weight of 331 kg and a Continental A 65-8 engine of mere 65 hps. Top speed 137 km.p.h., service ceiling 2 830 m, range 305 km. One by one handed over by the Cz AF to Flying Clubs. Two K-68s flown in the Prostejov Flying Club were stripped of their propellers from 1952 to 1954, so that no-one intending to cross the Iron Curtain West-bound could fly them.

 

 

 
   

D-47 Douglas C-47 Dakotas were called " workhorse " not only due to their mass use in transport of troops, freed POWs or various kinds of load. Their flying chartacteristics were superb and kits extremely reliable. 25 C-47s bought from the USA were used by the Cz AF from 1946 to 1962 for trasnport as well as dropping duties. Eighteen troopers plus two Air Corps men onboard. The latter ones without kit.