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Avia C-10.6, Command Flight, 2nd Air Division, Fighter Training Centre,
Czechoslovak Air Force, Planá Air Base,
Czechoslovakia, Spring 1947
The aircraft was test flown by Avia test
pilot Antonín Kraus on July 10, 1946. After
being accepted by the military acceptance
commission and the Police Air Patrol, it was
assigned from September to November 1946 to
the pilot retraining course of the 1 Air District
Headquarters in Kbely, whose goal was to retrain
police pilots on modern aircraft. At that time,
it already bore the prescribed color scheme and
registration OK
-
BYF for the Police Air Patrol,
which it retained even during its service with
subsequent National Security air patrols, or
rather the Security Air Force, until the summer
of 1947, when it was loaned, along with at least
four other S-99s, to the Fighter Training Center
at the 2 Air Division in České Budějovice. Here,
while retaining the original paint scheme, the
OK
-
BYF registration was merely carelessly
painted over on the fuselage and wings, and
the aircraft was re-marked with the new black
designation EV-11 on the fuselage. On April 30,
1947, however, the aircraft was damaged during
takeoff from Planá and subsequently sent for
overhaul. Whether this incident is related to the
fact that the aircraft is verifiably documented
in photographs with a different, uniform light-
colored scheme remains a question. In any case,
while the aircraft was still in service with the
Fighter Training Center, it was repainted on all
surfaces, apparently with a light gray-green
color that Avia also applied to other captured
aircraft being put into service at the time
(S/CS-92, S-199) and which is often mistakenly
confused with the original German RLM 02.
The aircraft was then marked with Czechoslovak
national insignia with white borders in the
usual locations, and on the fuselage black code
EV-11was painted. There is no evidence the code
was painted also on the underside of the wing
though.
Avia C-10.1 (W.Nr. 613156), Military Research Institute (VLÚ) Letňany,
Czechoslovakia, February 1946
This is the very first aircraft to be put into
service, originally a Bf 109G-10/U4 (W.Nr. 613156)
manufactured at WNF, which was test-flown by
Avia test pilot Petr Široký as early as February
22, 1946. This aircraft is known for its colorful
history. Not only because such famous WWII
pilots as Maj. Jiří Maňák, Capt. Stanislav Hlučka,
Lt. Col. František Chábera, and Lt. Col. Jaroslav
Taudy, were flying it, but also because until 1948 it
was assigned to the Scientific Aviation Institute
in Letňany (VLÚ) for testing, including takeoff
tests using launch rockets. It was precisely
at that time that the aircraft was painted in
a uniform light color on all surfaces, apparently
a light gray-green, which Avia also applied to
other captured aircraft being put into service
at the time (S/CS-92, S-199) and which is often
mistakenly confused with the original German
RLM 02. It was then fitted with Czechoslovak
national insignia with blue borders in the
usual locations and a black “V-9” marking on
the fuselage. During 1948, the aircraft was
transferred from the VLÚ to the Police Air Patrol
(then known as the SNB Air Force), where it
served in the new color scheme prescribed for
the Police Air Patrol units, with the registration
OK
-
BYA. From May 1950, following repairs at
Avia, it is even documented with the registration
OK-4381, having made its final flight after the
Police Air Patrol was disbanded—now formally
under the Ministry of National Defense—on
February 2, 1951.
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