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CS-199.571, Flight 1, 4 Air Regiment, Plzeň-Bory, 1952

Photographs of this aircraft do not reveal its serial

number, but regimental logs record CS-199s serialled

571, 573 and 542. The decal sheet offers all of these

numbers, and it is currently up to each modeler to

decide which to use. The 4 lp (Air Regiment) was not

a training entity, and as such, the aircraft did not

carry the yellow bands on the fuselage or on the

wings.

CS-199.559, por. Drahoslav Bartes and rt. Zdeněk Durčák, Kunovice,

September 1951

On September 14, 1951, the crew consisting of por.

Drahoslav Bartes and rt. Zdeněk Durčák accepted

Avia CS-199.559 at the Central Aviation Storage fa-

cility in Kunovice. An engine failure was suffered

shortly after takeoff, resulting in an emergency landing. The aircraft was stricken from service. Since

the aircraft had not entered service, the fuselage

only carried the temporary black code ‘305‘.

CS-199.548, kpt. Miloslav Šmíd and civil employee Vladimír Slušný, Aerospace Research Centre,

Praha-Letňany, February 1953

On February 5, 1953, the crew made up of kpt. Miloslav Šmíd (Deputy Inspector for the Military Administration for Repairs, Kbely - ZVSLOK) and civilian

employee Vladimír Slušný, left the landing strip af-

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ter touching down at Letňany, and the left landing

gear broke through the crusted surface of a service

trench, causing damage to the propeller. The aircraft

was subsequently repaired. At the time, Avia CS-

199.548 was with the Aviation Research Centre, and

carried the black number 80 on the fuselage.

June 2022