List of military aircraft of the Czech Republic explained

The following list of military aircraft of the Czech Republic is a list of military aircraft and civil aircraft for military use currently in service with the Czech Air Force, the Czech Land Forces (unmanned aerial vehicles) and the Flight Training Center as well as retired aircraft.

Current aircraft

Czech Air Force

See main article: Czech Air Force.

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| Aero L-159A ALCA || Czech Republic || Jet || Attack || 2000 || 16 || 72 || [1] [2] |-| Aero L-159T1 || Czech Republic || Jet || Trainer || 2007 || 5 || 5 || |- | Aero L-159T2 || Czech Republic || Jet || Trainer || 2019 || 3 || 3 |||-| Airbus A319CJ || Germany || Jet || Transport || 2006 || 2 || 2 || |-| CASA C-295M || Spain || Propeller || Transport || 2010 || 6 || 6 || |-| Let L-410 Turbolet || Czechoslovakia || Propeller || Transport || 1989 || 4 || 6 || |-| Let L-410FG || Czechoslovakia || Propeller || Patrol || 1985 || 2 || 2 || [3] |-| Mil Mi-24 V/Mi-35 || USSR/Russia || Rotorcraft || attack || 2004 || ? || 17 || Donated to Ukraine in 2022-2024[4] [5] [6] |-| Mil Mi-8 || USSR || Rotorcraft || Transport || 1984 || 1 || 18 || [7] [8] |-| Mil Mi-17 || USSR || Rotorcraft || Transport || 1989 || 5 || 28 || [9] |-| Mil Mi-171Sh || Russia || Rotorcraft || Transport || 2004 || 15 || 16 || [10] |-| PZL W-3 Sokół || Poland || Rotorcraft || Utility || 1995 || 10 || 11 || |-| Bell UH-1Y Venom || USA || Rotorcraft || Utility || 2023 || 6 || 10 || [11] [12] |-| Bell AH-1Z Viper || USA || Rotorcraft || Attack || 2023 || 4 || 10 || |-| Saab JAS 39 Gripen || Sweden || Jet || Multi-role || 2005 || 14 || 14 || |}

Flight Training Center

Flight Training Center (Czech: Centrum leteckého výcviku; CLV) in Pardubice is not a part of the Air Force. Primary flight training was outsourced as of 1 April 2004. CLV is a branch of LOM PRAHA s.p., state owned company.[13] |-| Aero L-39C Albatros || Czechoslovakia || Jet || Trainer || 1972 || 7 || || [14] [15] |-| Evektor-Aerotechnik EV-97 || Czech Republic || Propeller || Trainer || || 1 || || |-| Let L-410 Turbolet || Czechoslovakia || Propeller || Transport || || 1 || 2 || [16] |-| Mil Mi-17 || USSR || Rotorcraft || Transport || 1985 || 3 || 7 || [17] [18] |-| Enstrom 480B || USA || Rotorcraft || Trainer || 2018 || 9 || || [19] |-| Zlín Z-43 || Czech Republic || Propeller || Trainer || || 1 || || |-| Zlín Z-142 || Czech Republic || Propeller || Trainer || 1992 || 9 || || |}

Czech Land Forces

See main article: Czech Land Forces.

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the Czech Army are used mainly by the Unmanned Reconnaissance Aerial Vehicle Company of the 102nd Reconnaissance Battalion with one "Scan Eagle Group" and four "RQ-11B Raven Sections" ready for deployment (as of 2017).|-| Elbit Skylark || Israel || UAV || Reconnaissance || 2009 || 2 || || Acquired for overseas deployment.[20] |-| RQ-11B Raven || United States || UAV || Reconnaissance || || 6 || || |-| Scan Eagle || United States|| UAV || Reconnaissance || || 10 || || [21] |-| Wasp III || United States || UAV || Reconnaissance || 2010 || || || Acquired for ISTAR and FAC units.[22] |-| RQ-20 Puma || United States || UAV || Reconnaissance || 2008 || || || One system RQ-20A Puma was purchased in 2018. In 2022 was purchased four systems Puma 3 AE.|}

Retired aircraft

Czech Air Force

|-| Antonov An-12BP || USSR || Propeller || Transport || 1981 || 1994 || 1 || Introduced in 1964 in USSR.[23] |-| Antonov An-26 || USSR || Propeller || Transport || 1982 || 2011 || 4 || [24] |-| Tupolev Tu-134A || USSR || Jet || Transport || 1971 || 1996 || 1 || |-| Tupolev Tu-154M || USSR || Jet || Transport || 1998 || 2007 || 2 || [25] |-| Aero L-29 Delfin || Czechoslovakia || Jet|| Trainer || 1963 || 2003 || 32 || |-| Antonov An-30 || USSR || Propeller || Patrol || 1988 || 2003 || 1 || [26] |-| Mil Mi-2 || USSR || Rotorcraft || Utility || 1981 || 2004 || 38 || |-| Mil Mi-24D || Russia || Rotorcraft || Attack || 1978 || 2022 || 12 || 4 Donated to Ukraine in 2022[27] |-| MiG-21MF || USSR || Jet || Fighter || 1971 || 2005 || 72 || |-| MiG-21UM || USSR || Jet || Fighter/Trainer || 1972 || 2005 || 22 || [28] |-| MiG-23BN || USSR || Jet || Fighter-bomber || 1977 || 1994 || 32 || |-| MiG-23MF || USSR || Jet || Fighter || 1978 || 1994 || 13 || |-| MiG-23ML || USSR || Jet || Fighter || 1981 || 1998 || 17 || |-| MiG-23UM || USSR || Jet || Fighter/Trainer || 1978 || 1998 || 8 || |-| MiG-29A || USSR || Jet || Fighter || 1989 || 1995 || 9 || |-| MiG-29UB || USSR || Jet || Fighter/Trainer || 1989 || 1995 || 1 || |-| Sukhoi Su-22 || USSR || Jet || Fighter-bomber || 1984 || 2002 || 37 || 56 as of 1990; Slovakia received 19 in 1993.|-| Sukhoi Su-25 || USSR || Jet || Attack || 1984 || 2000 || 25 |||-| Yak-40 || USSR || Jet || Transport || 1972 || 2020 || 2 || museum exponats[29] |-| Bombardier Challenger CL-601 || Canada || Jet || Transport || 1992 || 2021 || 1 || [30] |-| Aero L-39ZA Albatros || Czechoslovakia || Jet || Trainer || 1989 || 2019 || 9 || [31] |-| Antonov An-24V || USSR || Propeller || Transport || 1967 || 2005 || 4 || [32] |}

Czech Land Forces

|-| Sojka III || Czech Republic || UAV || Reconnaissance || 1999 || 2011 || || |-| Tu-143 || USSR || UAV || Reconnaissance || 1985 || 1995 || ||[33] |}

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Soušek, Tomáš . 2015-08-21 . Vzdušné síly Armády ČR . Čadil . Jan . Vzdušné síly AČR - Ročenka 2015 . Czech Air Force Yearbook 2015 . cs, en . Praha . Magnet Press Slovakia in cooperation with L+K . 978-80-89169-33-7.
  2. Web site: Equipment Size in 2016. Ministry of Defence & Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. Ministerstvo obrany. 25 February 2016. 2016-01-01.
  3. Web site: Aircraft Data 1525, 1985 Let L-410FG Turbolet C/N 851525, Aérospatiale SA-330J Puma C/N 1525.
  4. Web site: Finnerty . Ryan . Czech AH-1Zs take flight, as Prague retires Mi-24s bound for Ukraine . flightglobal.com/ . 25 September 2023 . 17 August 2023.
  5. Web site: Česko poslalo na Ukrajinu část nejlepších bitevních vrtulníků. Včetně "Liberatoru Kosti" .
  6. Web site: Voska . Michal . Armáda dodá Ukrajině další vrtulník Mi-24. Předtím ho draze přemalovala . iDnes.cz . Mafra a.s. . 26 March 2024 . cs . 24 March 2024.
  7. Web site: Mil Mi-8.
  8. Web site: Vávrová . Iveta . Armáda na konci ledna vyřadila jeden ze dvou vrtulníků vládní letky. Chybí náhradní díly . iRozhlas.cz . Czech Radio . 25 September 2023 . cs . 19 February 2023.
  9. Web site: Mil Mi-8MTV (Exportní označení Mi-17) .
  10. News: LN: Pilot to blame for Czech helicopter's accident in Spain. 27 January 2016. Prague Daily Monitor.
  11. Web site: Çetiner . Yusuf . Czech Republic Receives Its First UH-1Y Venom Utility Helicopter . overtdefense.com . 15 September 2023 . 22 August 2023.
  12. News: V Česku je po dnešku deset amerických vrtulníků z 12 zakoupených . 26 March 2024 . ČTK . ČTK . 23 March 2024 . cs.
  13. Web site: LOM PRAHA. EVici webdesign s.r.o.. Lompraha.cz. 30 October 2014.
  14. Web site: VZ 2014 (.pdf). LOM PRAHA. LOM PRAHA s.p.. 25 February 2016.
  15. Soušek . Tomáš . 2013-08-17 . Čadil . Jan . Labutí píseň pro L-39 Albatros . Swan song of L-39 Albatros . cs, en . Czech Air Force Yearbook 2013 . Praha . Aeromedia.
  16. Web site: Hottmar . Aleš . LOM PRAHA nabízí k prodeji jeden z Turboletů pardubického CLV . czechairforce.com . 25 September 2023 . cs . 11 January 2023.
  17. Web site: Hottmar . Aleš . Poslední let "nula osm set dvacet osmičky" v pardubickém CLV . czechairforce.com . 15 September 2023 . cs . 4 May 2023.
  18. Čadil . Jan . Centrum leteckého výcviku LOM Praha dvacetileté . Letectví + kosmonautika . 6 March 2024 . 3 . 12-16 . 26 March 2024 . Magnet Press . cs . 0024-1156.
  19. Web site: Lang . Pavel . Správná a rychlá reakce na rostoucí požadavky výcviku vojenských pilotů . lompraha.cz . 15 September 2023 . cs . 21 December 2022.
  20. Soušek . Tomáš . 2010-01-08 . Skylark I-LE – další bezpilotní letoun v AČR . Skylark I-LE – another UAV of the Czech Army . cs . ATM . Prague . Aeromedia . 42 . 1 . 8–9 . 1802-4823.
  21. Web site: O nás [About us]]. 102. průzkumný prapor Prostějov. 9 February 2017.
  22. Soušek . Tomáš . 2013-02-01 . Přenosné soupravy ISTAR v AČR . Man-portable ISTAR sets of the Czech Army . cs . ATM . Prague . Aeromedia . 45 . 2 . 4–7 . 1802-4823.
  23. Web site: An-12BP 2105 : Československo .
  24. Web site: Lang. Pavel. Kolik vzletů, tolik přistání. To je pro letadla ten nejlepší výsledek. The same number of takeoffs and landings. The best result of the aircraft. acr.army.cz. Ministerstvo obrany. 11 February 2017.
  25. Soušek . Tomáš . První v Americe, první v Austrálii . First in America, first in Australia . cs . A report . Ministerstvo obrany . 2008-02-18 . 4 . 36–37.
  26. Web site: Antonov An-24, An-26, An-30. Brigadýr. 11 February 2017.
  27. News: Czech Republic Gives Ukraine Attack Helicopters and Repairs Its Vehicles. Wall Street Journal. May 23, 2022.
  28. Web site: MiG-21 / Ve znamení Delty / 1. část.
  29. Web site: Hottmar . Aleš . Letecké muzeum v Kunovicích získalo do expozice vládní Jak-40 . czechairforce.com . 15 September 2023 . cs . 15 November 2020.
  30. Web site: Zeman . Drahoslav . Challenger je na odpočinku ve Kbelích. Nejvíce ho využíval Václav Havel . CT24 . Czech Television . 15 September 2023 . cs . 4 June 2023.
  31. Konec L-39ZA Albatros ve Vzdušných silách AČR . ATM . 2019 . 51 . 9 . 58 . cs . 1802-4823.
  32. Web site: Antonov An-24 V, výr. č. 07109. VHU. Vojenský historický ústav Praha. 11 February 2017.
  33. Web site: Berka . Tomáš . Tupolev Tu-143 neboli VR-3 Rejs . 25 September 2023 . cs . 20 March 2004.