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TV Series (2015 - )
Starring:
Jakub Vrána (narrator)
The gate to history (Brána do historie) maps the essential moments of Czech and Czechoslovak history. In cooperation with the Military Historical Institute Prague, reporter Jakub Vrána will bring exclusive information, unique photographs and film footage.
Note : this page will list only episode featuring aircraft.
Episode 1 Epizody z konce 2 sv války
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Episode 2 Československo proti nacismu
Unidentified Aircraft
Arado Ar 65
Dornier Do 24
Arado Ar 68F
Heinkel He 51
Avia B-534
Wallpaper is displaying Avia B-534s during an air parade.
Avia B-534, 2nd series, of 32th squadron, 4th Air Regiment (Letecký pluk č. 4).
Avia F.39 (license built Fokker F.IX)
Potez 542
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Bloch MB.200 & Farman F.222
Farman in foreground of several Bloch 200.
Farman 222.
Zlín Z-43
Bloch MB.200
Three different aircrafts of the French Air Force.
Aero MB.200
Aero MB.200 (c/n 86) of the 6th Squadron.
Aero MB.200 (c/n 36) of the 6th Air Group, 86th Squadron.
Amiot 144
The Amiot 144 is a prototype with a retractable gear as main difference with the 143. But the wing is brand new too (reduced wing area) and the manufacturer never solved some aileron malfunction so state experimental center had rejected the aircraft.
Bloch MB.300 & Farman F.222
Episode 3 Okupace Československa
Douglas DC-2
Two DC-2s of KLM-Royal Dutch Air Lines.
Perhaps PH-AJU nowadays but (if right), the real registration is NC39165 (c/n 1404)). The original PH-AJU is under heavy restoration after years of gate guardian on a pole.
Douglas DC-3-194C
Reg. PH-ARE Douglas DC-3-194C c/n 1981. Later reg. PK-AFZ.
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Reg. PH-PBA was a former C-47 c/n 19434 s/n 42-100971. It served as the government plane (PBA stand for Prince Bernhard Alpha) from 1946 (anachronism regarding the subject).
Episode 6 Pražské povstání
Ar 396A-2
Arado Ar 396A-2 Wr Nr 460042.
Episode 7 Konec 2 světové války v Československu
Lavochkin La-5F
Lavochkin La-5F code 71.
Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik
Episode 9 Předválečná československá vojenská technika
Unidentified Aircraft
Episode 10 Migy na dálnici D1
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 F-13
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PF
Mil Mi-8
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 MF
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 BN
Episode 12 Tragédie Velké války
Unidentified Aircraft
Episode 15 Modrý den
Short movie (1953) about the National meeting.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 & Ilyushin Il-14
Letov LF-107 Luňák
Reg. OK-0877.
Reg. OK-O841.
Reg OK-0821.
Pleško SP-2 & Unidentified Sailplane
Reg. OK-3098 Pleško SP-2 and unknown OK-8742.
Ilyushin Il-10
Yakovlev Yak-23 Flora (S-101)
Yakovlev Yak-23 (known as Flora among NATO pilots) soldiered on Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force) from 1949. Among the twenty S-101 used by Czechoslovakia, we can see IF-10, IF-11, IF-13, IF-15 & IF-17.
Aero S-102
At least forty S-102 in a sight !
The main visual difference between a S-102 (MiG-15) and a S-103 (MiG-15 bis) is the shape of the speedbrake.
Zlin Z-24 Krajánek
Reg. OK-8?34 (and OK-8118 in the background).
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Zlin Z-381 (C-106)
Airframes produced for the Československé vojenské letectvo were named C-106 by the Air force.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 bis
MiG-15 bis of the Moscow Military District PVO aerobatic display team, the 'Red Falcons'.
Episode 17 První léta nové totality
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Closing the cockpit.
Episode 19 Mobilizace 1938
Avia B-534 Series II
Avia F.39 (license built Fokker F.IX)
Avia B-534 Series IV
Episode 26 Transport historických exponátů
Filmed at Múzejné oddelenie Piešťany (Museum of Military History, Piešťany, Slovakia) on 2012.
Mikoyan MiG-29 A
MiG-29A s/n 7702 (c/n 2960526377) from 11 Sqn, Czech Air Force. In December 1995 the Czech Republic sold her to Poland where she's now flying as '77'.
MiG-29A s/n 8003 (c/n 2960526380). After the break-up of Czechoslovakia on December 31st 1992, she soldiered on for Slovakia. Last flight on February 13, 1995. At the Military History Museum in Piestany from 14 March 2012.
Let L-410 Turbolet
Two airframes in the background.
Yakovlev Yak-11
Painted in green at right. Unidentified yellow glider is hung to the ceiling.
Mil Mi-24 & Mil Mi-8
Background. The Mil Mi-24 noze is covored.
Episode 29 Technické památky v Česku
Location : Národní technické muzeum (National Technical Museum), Prague, Czech Republic.
Kantor-Kuklik Racek 3 & Praha PB.3
Reg. OK-8340 Kantor-Kuklik Racek 3 hung alongside a Praha PB.3. Between their two white wings, we guess the Etrich E.VIII Limusina. Bottom, we guess the two-seat Avia BH-9 by the flag paint on its wing.
Various Aircraft
1 : Praha PB.3
2 : Etrich E.VIII Limusina
3 : Knoller C II (1917) which hides a Supermarine Spitfire (LF Mk.IXE on the ground among cars)
4 : Reg. OK-AVO Avia BH-10
5 : Reg. OK-IRF Zlin_Z-50 LA
Unidentified Aircraft
Zlin Z-XIII & Upgraded Blériot XI
In front of the Zlin Z-XIII (reg. OK-TBZ), the plane that Jan Kašpar used on 16 April 1910 for the first indigenous flight in the Czech lands. It's a Blériot XI (c/n 76) the flyer modified before its famous long-haul flight which took place on 13 May 1911.
Episode 31 Unikátní exponáty VHÚ
Petlyakov Pe-2
Aero C-3A
Aero C-3A (serial LB-05, c/n 226) at Prague Aviation Museum, just under the Let L-13 Blanik (reg. OK-4835) and (top right) OK-9801 Vyvojova Skupina Morava VSM-40 Demant.
Episode 33 Kapitoly 2. Světové války
Messerschmitt Bf 109 D
Messerschmitt Bf 110 D
Probably BM+BL.
Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka
Various Supermarine Spitfire
Hawker Hurricane Mk I
Pilots of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF in front of Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3143 NN-D at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 7 September 1940. Aircraft lost on the 16th October 1940.
Boulton Paul Defiant
Foreground of a flypast of Hurricanes.
Unidentified Aircraft
Vickers Wellington
Petlyakov Pe-2 & Lisunov Li-2
Lavochkin La-5F
Episode 37 Konec první republiky
Douglas DC-2
One of the four Douglas DC-2 used by C.L.S. Československá Letecká Společnost.
(Probably) Reg. OK-AIC. If right, this aircraft has had a tumultuous service life but ended in a museum.
Unidentified Aircraft
Episode 38 Českoslovenští letci ve Velké Británii
Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk Vb
No. 1659 Conversion Unit RAF.
Some of the numerous fighters used by No. 310 (Czech) Squadron RAF.
Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk Vb NN-Y EE768.
De Havilland DH98 Mosquito
Mosquito EW-L bring back at base an unfortunate pilot.
Consolidated Liberator B Mk III
Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow
Ignition !
Episode 41 Cíl: Svoboda
Vickers Wellington Mk X
Vickers Wellington Mk X MF628, Royal Air Force Museum, London.
This aircraft (actually T Mk 10 with overall silver paint) made several flight for use in filming of The Dam Busters. The front gun turret was restored only in 1981. At Cosford for restoration since 2010.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Morane-Saulnier MS.406
Avro Anson
Vickers Wellington Mk IC
Vickers Wellington Mk I or Mk XIV ?
Messerschmitt Bf 109 E
Consolidated Liberator GR Mk V
Note the eight zero-length rocket launchers on sides of the forward fuselage.
Another with chin radome housing the ASV Mark III radar.
Episode 44 Mig-15
Aero S-102
How to built a MiG-15 ?
Czechoslovakia license built the MiG-15 as S-102, MiG-15 bis as S-103 and MiG-15 UTI as CS-102. Tour inside Aero Vodochody factory from the drawing board ...
resonance testing ...
Junkyard with the various test airframe.
Aero CS-102
Aero S-103
Episode 45 Vzpomínka na tři rána v Českém lese
Mil Mi-6
Mil Mi-4
Episode 48 Palba na vzdušné cíle z ručních zbraní
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Ilyushin Il-2M3 Sturmovik
Episode 53 Vojenské manévry u Poličky
Aero A-14
Post-war Hansa-Brandenburg C.I built by Czechoslovakia.
At 23mn12, this one is push out the hangar, engine cowling not in place.
Aero A-18
Episode 54 Letecké závody v Curychu 1937
4th International Aviation Meeting Zurich (1937).
Antonov An-2
Aero A.100
Unidentified Aircraft
Avia Ba.122
Eight Avia Ba.122 team up for the aerobatics competition. Five of them can be identified.
Reg. OK-AMI Avia Ba.122 c/n 17.
Reg. OK-AMK Avia Ba.122 c/n 12.
Some can be identified by their contruction number featuring on wing mast, like OK-AMK which is the 12th airframe built.
This was a way to ease the unbuilt/built of the aircraft since the convo was done with airframe dismantled.
Other Avia Ba.122 seen : OK-AME (c/n 13) and OK-AMF (c/n 14) and OK-AMM (c/n 22).
Avia B-534-IV
Reg. OK-AMN Avia B-534 c/n 201.
Reg. OK-AMP Avia B-534 c/n 203.
Heinkel He 112 V4
Reg. D-IZMY Heinkel He 112 V4 WNr.001293.
Morane-Saulnier MS.225
Morane-Saulnier MS.225s of the French Air Force aerobatics flight, l'Ecole de perfectionnement de l'Armée de l'Air aka the famous Patrouille d'Etampes.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Dornier Do 17 V8
Fieseler Fi 156 A-0 Storch
Reg. D-IJFN Fieseler Fi 156 A-0 c/n 612.
Lioré et Olivier LeO C.30
This International Aviation Meeting had included a category for autogiro but by lack of competitors, only demonstration flights were done. This one with Adjudent Troye at the controls.
Unidentified Glider
Probably the glider handled by Anna Reitsch some minutes before the motor glider (see next section).
DFS Rhönsperber
Reg. (HB-)159 DFS Rhönsperber of Ernest Spahni who motorised her with an Alpha engine in June 1937.
Hawker Fury
Fiat CR.32
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Messerschmitt sent two Bf 109s to Zurich : prototypes V13 and V14.
Reg. D-IPKY prototype V13 seen late in this episode.
Some weeks later, in November, it put the world speed record to 610.95 kilometers per hour.
Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
Reg. D-IETC Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun.
Percival Mew Gull
(Probably) Reg. G-ACND Percival Mew Gull.
SFCA Taupin
Louis Clément in a Taupin won the rally at the Zurich meeting ahead of a large field. He flew 756 km (470 mi) at an average speed of 68 km/h (42 mph).
SFCA stand for Société Française de Construction Aéronautique. The designer of this tandem-wing aircraft was Jean Lignel.
Unidentified Aircraft
Avia F.39
Reg. OK-AMR is the ninth Avia F.39 built.
Fokker F.XVIII
Reg. OK-AIR Fokker F.XVIII c/n 5311 of Československá letecká společnost.
Was first registered as PH-AIR and ended under D-AAIR registration.
De Havilland DH86 Express
Unidentified Aircraft
Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister
The Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister is hidden by the záběry VHÚ inverted text.
Henschel Hs 123
Douglas DC-2
Douglas DC-2 of Swissair.
Episode 55 Naši vojáci
Aero A-11
Aero A-11 s/n 111 4 L.P. (Air Regiment) Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force).
Avia F.39
Most of the footage has been already seen at episode 02.
Episode 59 Nad žulu pevnější
Avia B-33
Commemoration monument at Nižný Komárnik, Svidník District, Slovakia.
At Fall 1944 heavy fightings occured at the Dukla pass with the support of Soviet Air force using Ilyushin Il-2. An Avia B-33 which is put on the pedestal adorn with the Red Star.
Sukhoi Su-7
Episode 60 Vítězný pochod
Aero C-3A
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Yakovlev Yak-18
Too slow to be fighters.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
On 1st May 1952, MiG-17 was not yet in service.
Episode 62 Rozdělená země
Ilyushin Il-28 & Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
North Korea flypast during 1955.
Episode 64 Na tý louce zelený
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PF
Soviet airframes based in Czechkoslovakia with Quick Identification Stripes applied during 1968.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21U
Aero S-106
Licence built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F-13 mostly kept confined.
'BAT' insigna of 2.letka, 1.SLP.
Antonov An-8
Aero CS-102
Czech licence built of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 UTI.
Note the Mil Mi-4 seen behind Aero CS-102 taxiing.
Episode 65 Tankistův rok 1968
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 used as target tower.
Episode 69 Pobřeží je klidné
Dassault-Dornier Alpha Jet E
Aerobatic demonstration team of the French Air Force (Patrouille de France) overflying celebration of D-Day in 1988.
Aérospatiale SA 330L Puma
(bottom right) Rotor of the Aérospatiale Puma used by President Mitterrand to join the celebration.
Supermarine Spitfire Mk I
Some of the very first 78 Spitfire fitted with a two-blade propeller.
Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk Vb
Messerschmitt Bf 110 E
Hawker Hurricane
Vickers Wellington
North American Mitchell II
Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk V
Douglas DB-7 Boston III
Episode 75 Naši výsadkáři
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Other marking seen : D-26.
Episode 79 Zničte cíl 1022!
Aero L-29 Delfin
Aero L-29 Delfin serialed 0902 of the Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force).
Aero L-29R Delfin
Aero L-29R Delfin serialed 9904.
WSK PZL-Świdnik Mi-2
Mil Mi-8 or Mil Mi-2 ?
Episode 81 Společná řeč tankistů
Antonov An-12
Mil Mi-6
Episode 82 Vysazení taktického vzdušného výsadku
All aircraft and helicopter from the Soviet Forces.
Mil Mi-4
Loading a ZiS-2 anti tank gun.
Firing the machine gun of lower gondola.
Tupolev Tu-16
Tupolev Tu-4
Swept by the shockwave of the nuclear blast, a Tupolev Tu-4 (right). Probably an [[::Category: Ilyushin Il-28|Ilyushin Il-28]] surrounded by dust (left).
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 bis
Episode 83 Skleněná oblaka
Aero A-18
Ilyushin Il-28
Ilyushin Il-28 2305 of the Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force).
Aero S-103
Licence built MiG-15 bis.
Episode 84 Cvičný proudový letoun
Aero L-29 Delfin
Aero L-29 Delfin 1417 of the Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force).
Aero L-39C Albatros
Aero L-39 Albatros. Serial seen : 0103 ; 0105 ; 0106 ; 0107 ; 0108 ; 0111 ; 0113 ; 0114.
Various Aircraft
Prague Aviation Museum, Kbely.
Behind Aero L-39C Albatros serial 3905 prototype X-05 (clockwise starting at 9 o'clock) :
(white aircraft hidden by the red tip tank of the L-39) Reg. OO-FRE Zlin Z-22 Junak c/n 82;
Reg. OK-BHM Mráz M-1C Sokol;
Reg. (out of the frame) OK-5629 Zlin Z-23 Honza c/n 128;
Reg. OK-8055 Schneider DFS 108-49 Grunau Baby IIB;
Sukhoi Su-7BM serial 5616 (hidden by ...)
Reg. OK-9801 glider VSM VSM-40 Demant c/n 7 and
Aero L-29 Delfin serial 0010 c/n 190010;
Reg. 12-09 Letov KT-04 (bottom right).
Some of them could be seen in Vraždy v kruhu.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F-13 Fishbed serial 0613 c/n 760613;
Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-17PF c/n 001015 over ...
the brown nose of MiG-21R serial 1501 last owned by 28th fighter bomber regiment between 1993 and 1995 and the yellow VZLU C-02B target (serial 67-031);
with a shark mouth and the bat squadron badge (1st Fighter Air Regt), serial 3922, it's MiG-23MF Flogger-B c/n 13922.
Episode 88 Družba 89
Mil Mi-24 D
Mil Mi-8
Probably a Mil Mi-8 SMT as the command tribune is at a short distance.
Episode 90 Vojáci proti válce
Mil Mi-8
Mil Mi-24 D
Mil Mi-24 D of the Luftstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee (East German Air Force).
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Episode 91 Odra – Nisa 69
Ilyushin Il-14
WSK PZL-Świdnik Mi-2
From Polish armed forces.
Mil Mi-4
Mil Mi-1
Tail rotor of two Mil Mi-1 from the Polish armed forces, so possibly licence built WSK PZL-Świdnik SM-1.
Mil Mi-4 & Mil Mi-8 & Ilyushin Il-14
From left to right. From the Polish forces.
Mil Mi-6
Antonov An-12
WSK PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra
We are in Poland and the straight trailing edge forbidden to think to Aero L-29 Delphin.
Ilyushin Il-28
Unidentified MiG Aircraft
MiG-15 or MiG-17 ?
Episode 92 Akce Kvartet
Ilyushin Il-18V
Reg. CCCP-75601 / SSSR-75601 Ilyushin Il-18V used by the VVS (Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily / Military Air Forces) from 1959 until 1979.
Ilyushin Il-14
Polish Ilyushin Il-14.
Mil Mi-6
s/n 10680503B / 10680503V used by Soviet armed forces.
Mil Mi-4
Two Mil Mi-4s wearing the Red Star.
Ilyushin Il-28
Sukhoi Su-7
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
Antonov An-12
Episode 93 Akce Vítr
Aero S-102
Serial 1143 with a temporary camouflage
Rocket launcher SR-55 on both sides of the underwing tank on a MiG.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
Mil Mi-4
Mi-4 minelayer.
Mil Mi-1
Ilyushin Il-28
Ilyushin Il-14
Ilyushin Il-14 of the Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily (Soviet Air Force) in foreground heating on its engine near several ones of the Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force).
Episode 96 Osvobozené Československo
Junkers Ju 87 Stuka
Avia B-534
Lockheed 14 Super Electra
Lockheed 14 Super Electra of British Airways Ltd.
Messerschmitt Bf 110 C
Heinkel He 111 H
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Between the two footages of the Heinkel He 111, this view of the bomb bay of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress dropping its load. Note that bomb load was held vertically inside the Heinkel fuselage, not horizontally like most bomber including the B-17.
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 A-0
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 A-0 26+00 used by Hitler as personal aircraft.
Junkers Ju 52/3m
Petlyakov Pe-2
Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
1948 : Arrival of President Edvard Beneš in Soviet Union.
Ar 396A-2
See above Episode 6.
Lavochkin La-5F
Lavochkin La-5F code 71.
Yakovlev Yak-9
(coming soon)
Episode 42 Nepokořená křídla
(to be continued)
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Episode 100 První vlaštovky
Episode 101 ČS letectvo ve 20. letech
Episode 102 Stíhači
Episode 103 Priboj
Episode 104 Veteráni RAF
Episode 105 Phantom v ČSFR
Episode 110 Lidé a zbraně
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See also
- Unidentified Aircraft
- Aero A.100 and derivatives
- Aero L-29 Delfin
- Aero L-39 Albatros
- Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma
- Amiot 143
- Antonov An-2
- Antonov An-8
- Antonov An-10/An-12
- Arado Ar 65
- Arado Ar 68
- Arado Ar 96/Ar 396
- Avia B-534
- Avro Anson
- Blériot XI
- Bloch MB.200
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister
- Bücker Bü 181 Bestmann
- Cierva C.30
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- Dassault-Dornier Alpha Jet
- De Havilland DH86 Express
- De Havilland DH98 Mosquito
- Dornier Do 17
- Dornier Do 24
- Douglas DC-2
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas A-20 Havoc
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Farman F.220
- Fiat CR.32
- Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
- Focke-Wulf Fw 200
- Hawker Fury
- Hawker Hurricane
- Heinkel He 51
- Heinkel He 111
- Heinkel He 112
- Henschel Hs 123
- Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik
- Ilyushin Il-10
- Ilyushin Il-14
- Ilyushin Il-18
- Ilyushin Il-28
- Junkers Ju 52
- Junkers Ju 87 Stuka
- Lavochkin La-5
- Let L-410 Turbolet
- Lisunov Li-2
- Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
- Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun
- Messerschmitt Bf 109
- Messerschmitt Bf 110
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- Mil Mi-1
- Mil Mi-4
- Mil Mi-6
- Mil Mi-8/17
- Mil Mi-24
- Morane-Saulnier MS.225
- Morane-Saulnier MS.406
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- Percival Mew Gull
- Petlyakov Pe-2
- Potez 540
- PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra
- PZL-Świdnik Mi-2
- Siebel Si 204
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Sukhoi Su-7
- Tupolev Tu-4
- Tupolev Tu-16
- Vickers Wellington
- Yakovlev Yak-9
- Yakovlev Yak-11
- Yakovlev Yak-18
- Yakovlev Yak-23
- Zlín Z-43
- British Airways Ltd
- KLM
- Swissair