Avia/Letov C-2 V československém vojenském letectvu/Avia/Letov C-2 in the Czechoslovak AF

The first decade of post-war construction in the Czech Republic. aviation is inextricably linked (in addition to other types of aircraft, of course) with the continuation training aircraft, originally a product of the German company Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH, engaged in the production of aircraft, in which field it became a term especially in the period II. world war. Her airplane Arado Ar 96, which under the Czechoslovak with the designation C-2, in the period 1945-1951, he carried all the burden of continuing flight training at the Air Force Academy and the Air Force Academy, and then until the mid-1950s at the Air Force Academy, he was a real phenomenon of that time in our air force, generally known under the name "Arado" . In addition to the main mission in aviation schools, he also served in training tasks in the combat units of the Czechoslovak Republic. air force and in some cases, during transitional periods of lack of combat aircraft, he even replaced them in training. The C-2 aircraft was directly destined for this dominant position in the given field by the course of its wartime production in the protectorate aviation industry at the Prague companies Avia and Letov, from whose gates 2,375 machines came out for the needs of Luftwaffe training units by the end of the war. At the time of the end of the war, some of them were located at our airports mainly in various stages of devastation caused by retreating German troops and various revolutionary enthusiasts. Even so, some of these aircraft, together with the first pieces from production restored already in the summer of 1945, became the first training follow-on aircraft of the restored air force of the liberated republic. Subsequent start-up of post-war production in the Czech Republic. made it possible for the aviation industry to train several thousand new pilots who, after 1950, participated in the mass construction of jet aviation. Those of them who are still among us, even after more than half a century, cannot help but feel nostalgic when they say the name "Arado". So let us remember together with them, who in later years could only read about "Arad" in aviation literature. It can only be regretted that not a single one of the many airplanes that once roamed the skies over our small republic has survived to the present day .

Format 297 x 230 mm, hardcover, 96 pages, many photos and color side views.