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Brána do historie title screen.

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 ?

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.

Aero S-102 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

311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF .

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

Assembly line.

Roll out.

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

Douglas C-47 s/n 43-48406.

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

Red 23.

Red 31.

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

Red 397.

Episode 83 Skleněná oblaka

Aero A-18

Ilyushin Il-28

Ilyushin Il-28 2305 of the Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force).

Front cockpit.

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.