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INTERVIEW WITH
PETR JEZEK
HISTORY
for vintage aircraft as I did. After my military
service ended, I went to the aviation museum
with these friends in my free time and helped
with everything that was needed for free. That
lasted almost twenty years, with a couple of
brakes in between.
Was this with Mr. Janečka still serving as the
museum’s curator, or was he gone by then?
I remember the founder of the Aviation Museum
in Kbely, Colonel Janečka. I talked to him several
times when I entered the museum. But he was
no longer on active duty during my tenure.
Did your military service provided you with
your first exposure to the museum at Kbely?
Were you not there prior?
As a visitor, many times. My father used to take
me to the museum as a boy. My dad worked at
LOK (Kbely Aviation Repair Shop) on, among
other things, renovations of exhibits for the
Aviation Museum. For example, he participated
in work on the C-11, CS-92, Meteor, Vampire,
and the An-2. He showed me the Phantom, for
example, shortly after the British had flown it
to Kbely. So I just kind of stumbled around, and
now I have ‘airplanes’ as a family diagnosis.
How many restorations have you got under
your belt?
Just for the Military Historical Institute,
I participated in the renovation of the Su-7,
Su-22, Su-25, F-4S Phantom II, F-5E Tiger II,
Aero Ae-45, C-104, Mi-1 and the Aero C- 3B.
This also includes some free maintenance of
airplanes and helicopters for the Kbely Museum,
just out of my love of airplanes.
Fourteen-year-
-old Petr Jezek
on the museum’s
Phantom. Photo
Petr Jezek
The Kbely Phantom FG.2. Photo Petr Jezek
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March 2024