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Afghan National Air Corps L-39 Albatross jets take off in a formation practice for the aerial parade in the upcoming Afghan National Day in Kabul, April 12, 2007. Afghan Air Force. The Afghan Air Force operated as many as 26 L-39Cs from 1977 through 2001, but only three of them survived in 2001. In December 2021, a report by Al Jazeera showed ...
Data from Cliche and L'il Hustler General characteristics Crew: one Capacity: one passenger Length: 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) Wingspan: 33 ft 6 in (10.21 m) Wing area: 172 sq ft (16.0 m 2) Empty weight: 500 lb (227 kg) Gross weight: 1,200 lb (544 kg) in the Canadian basic ultralight category, 1500 lbs in the amateur-built category. Fuel capacity: 10 US gallons (38 litres) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 582 ...
Vintage Wings of Canada. / 45.5178; -75.5638. Vintage Wings of Canada is a not for profit, charitable organization, with a collection of historically significant aircraft. The facility is located at the Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport, Quebec, Canada. It was founded by former Cognos CEO and philanthropist Michael U. Potter.
The Alberta Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum is located on-site at the former Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport on the southwest corner of the field (11410 Kingsway NW). The museum operates daily except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.
The L-39 Albatros was designed during the 1960s as a successor to the Aero L-29 Delfín, an early jet-powered principal training aircraft. Performing its maiden flight on 4 November 1968, it became the first trainer aircraft in the world to be equipped with a turbofan powerplant. Quantity production of the L-39 Albatros proceeded in 1971; one ...
The L-39 program was halted on August 26, 1946, and the L-39-1 was sent to Langley Field, where it was used for wind tunnel testing. [1] The L-39-2 was retained by Bell to support their X-2 program, being modified with a new fully swept wing of a design intended for the X-2. [1] [3] On December 12, 1949, both aircraft were transferred to the ...
One of its Beavers, aircraft CF-FHB, is preserved in the Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa, while one of its Model 170 Bristol Freighters, Freighter CF-WAE, is in the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For its scheduled routes, it operated five U.S.-built Fairchild F-27 turboprop aircraft acquired from Hughes Air West in 1976-77.
Found Aircraft FBA-2C1 Bush Hawk. Found Aircraft Centennial 100. Found Aircraft Canada was an aircraft manufacturer based in Parry Sound, Ontario. Found originally formed in 1946 to produce a new bush plane design, the FBA-1, but entered production in 1964 with the Found FBA-2. The original company ceased production of the FBA-2 in 1967.