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Poland/Romania: Fighter 95 Retired in 1948 1937 PZL P.24E: Poland/Romania: Fighter 30 Retired in 1948 1937 General Aircraft Monospar ST-25: UK: Utility: 2 Retired in 1941 1938 Bloch MB.210 BN.5: France: Medium bomber: 10 Retired in 1946 1938 IAR 37: Romania: Reconnaissance/light bomber 50 Retired after 1948 1938 IAR 38: Romania: Reconnaissance ...
These were followed by native-built aircraft and imports from Italy (flying boats) and Germany (floatplanes), resulting, by the time of the Second World War, in a sizable and active force of over 70 watercraft. Currently the Romanian Naval Aviation consists of Grupul 256 Elicoptere (256th Helicopter Group) equipped with IAR 330 Naval helicopters.
The Air Force branch of the Royal Romanian forces in World War II was officially named the Aeronautica Regală Română (ARR, lit. ' Romanian Royal Aeronautics '), though it is more commonly referred to in English histories as the Forțele Aeriene Regale ale României (Royal Romanian Air Force, FARR), or simply Forțele Aeriene Române (Romanian Air Force).
First of three prototypes of the Curtiss XP-55 Ascender, 42-78845, on test flight out of Lambert Field, St. Louis, Missouri, crashes when pilot is unable to recover from a stall, engine then quits, Curtiss test pilot J. Harvey Gray divorces airframe after 16,000-foot (4,900 m) plummet, landing safely, fighter impacts inverted in an open field.
The 48th Fighter Squadron was formed on 19 April 1942 within the Grupul 9 Vânătoare (9th Fighter Group) of the Flotila 1 Vânătoare (1st Fighter Flotilla).Under the command of Lieutenant (Lt.) Ion Bozero, the airmen of the 48th Squadron together with the 47th Fighter Squadron converted to the IAR 80 after training on Fleet 10 and Nardi FN.305 aircraft.
Flight Lieutenant István Horthy (the son of the Hungarian regent Miklós Horthy), 37, serving as a fighter pilot with 1/1 Fighter Squadron of the Royal Hungarian Air Force is killed in Russia when his MÁVAG Héja ("Hawk"), "V.421", a Hungarian fighter based on the Reggiane Re.2000, crashes shortly after takeoff from an air field near Ilovskoye.
The naval war in the Black Sea commenced with the Raid on Constanța on 26 June 1941, the only encounter between major warships during the entire campaign. [1] The Romanian flotilla leader Mărăști and the destroyer Regina Maria together with the minelayer Amiral Murgescu defended the port against the Soviet cruiser Voroshilov and the Leningrad-class destroyer leaders Kharkov and Moskva.
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