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Avia C-10.7, Police Air Patrol, Czechoslovakia, 1947
The aircraft was test-flown by Avia chief pilot
Antonín Kraus on August 13, 1946, and after
being accepted by the military acceptance
commission and the Police Air Patrol, it served
almost exclusively with its air patrols for
virtually the entire duration of the existence
of this unit. At least until June 17, 1947, when
it was damaged during takeoff at Ruzyně AB
and sent for repairs (and is documented in
photographs), it bore the Police Air Patrol
meticulously executed livery and registration
OK
-
BYG. A decree by the Ministry of the Interior
had stipulated at the time that the color scheme
of Police Air Patrol aircraft would consist of
a base tone of metallic gray, with the underside
of the wings and fuselage in a darker shade, the
upper surface of the wings and the sides of the
fuselage in a lighter shade, while the nose, the
leading edges of the wings and of the horizontal
stabilizer were to be scarlet red. The vertical
stabilizer was required to display the national
colors in a spherical triangle, and the fuselage
and lower surfaces were to bear the registration
in the format OK
-
Bxx.
Avia C-10.8, Police Air Patrol Unit, Brno-Slatina, Czechoslovakia, 1947-1950
The aircraft was test-flown by Avia test pilot
Petr Široký on November 6, 1946, and was
briefly registered with the Scientific Aviation
Institute in Letňany (VLÚ), not for testing, but
for the purpose of military and the Police Air
Patrol acceptance commission. This aircraft, too,
served almost exclusively with the Police Air
Patrol for practically the entire duration of the
unit’s existence, specifically with the Brno unit
from 1947 to 1950. This aircraft, too, bore—at least
initially—the Security Air Force’s meticulously
executed livery and the registration OK
-
BYH.
It is also one of the S-99s that were subsequently
converted to S-199s; this one became the well-
known S-199.185 with the fuselage code IF-01.
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