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A selection of Valmet build basic trainers, starting up with the first series produced post war Finnish aircraft, Vihuri II, via sole Tuuli III into the next (and sofar last) series produced Vinka





Tuuli II and Redigo will follow once I get better references in my hands

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Thanks for comments!

@Gollevainen
Nice additions. Great to see them.

That's a lovely series Golly.

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English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft

Pilatus PC-7 Operators


If anyone have a picture of PC-7 of Nigerian Air Force, please let me know!

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- RHKAAF / HKGFS - 皇家香港輔助空軍 / 政府飛行服務隊
- Gunbucket - LINK

天滅中共全黨死清光!

Focke-Wulf Fw44 Stieglitz - China

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- Victorian Navy - LINK
- ROC/Taiwan - 中華民國空軍 / 陸軍航特部 / 海軍航空兵 - LINK
- RHKAAF / HKGFS - 皇家香港輔助空軍 / 政府飛行服務隊
- Gunbucket - LINK

天滅中共全黨死清光!

Great job here recently; all of you. Good to see trainers/slow flying planes for a while Also, great to see Redigo here as soon as possible...

Good job with the pilatus!

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Fantastic work in the german aircraft, Eswube. Very well escorted by the nice set of drawings of Gollevainen & Darth Panda. Excellent drawn aircraft. Cheers.

@Reytuerto, Sebu
Thanks!

@Darth Panda
Nice work! (Esp. on the Focke-Wulf )

And now some new Polish Wings-related stuff, but of Soviet origin, starting with trainers.

In 1935 Yakovlev built a prototype of monoplane trainer, intended for both civil and military aviation (well, let's face it - in Soviet Union line between these two was always very blurry), designated AIR-10. It was subjected to long evaluation process, which it finished with favorable opinions, that led to creation of the Ya-20 trainer adapted for series production. After some further modifications it turned into UT-2 basic trainer, produced in long series (over 7200 aircraft) between 1938 and 1946, including some interesting experimental adaptations. Late during the war, the development process led to UT-2L and single-seat Yak-5 (intended as trainer for fighter-pilots to-be), that were direct predecessors of the very popular in the post-war era Yak-18 trainer.

Yakovlev AIR-10, Ya-20, UT-2, Yak-5 (Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia)










Yakovlev Yak-11 advanced trainer was born as training version of Yak-3 fighter, but equipped with ASh-82 engine (initially designated Yak-3UTI or Yak-UTI). Between 1946 and 1956 nearly 3900 of these aircraft were produced in the Soviet Union and additional 700+ in Czechoslovakia as Let C-11. Both these versions were widely exported, and eventually number of them, thanks to it's fighter heritage, found "second life" as warbirds (often converted to single-seat configuration and with inline engines).

Yakovlev Yak-11, Let C-11 (Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Egypt, Hungary, Mali, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Yemen)










And finally the Shcherbakov Shche-2 - light transport, first flown in 1942, that was produced in series of ca. 550, initially for military aviation, but also used in civil service for number of years after the war.

Shcherbakov Shche-2 (Soviet Union, Poland)

Did not know about the last before. Again found out something new. Well done eswube for this magnificent series of aircraft!