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Type: Avia B.158 three/four seat medium bomber prototype.
Max Speed: 270 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling 27,885 ft.
Range 684 miles.
Armament: three 0.303-in (7.7-mm) machine gun in nose, dorsal and ventral positions and up to 2,205 lb of bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
The B.158 was a bomber of some promise, and its most distinctive feature was the inverted gull wings with the neatly nacelled engines (complete with main landing gear units) in their angles.

 

Type: Avia BH-21 single seat fighter.
Max Speed was 152 mph at 9,845 ft.
Climb Rate: 16,405 ft in 13 minutes 0 seconds.
Service Ceiling: 18,045 ft.
Range: 342 miles.
Armament two 0.303-in (7.7-mm) fixed machine guns.
Photo: Musee de Air
The Czechoslovak air force's standard fighter in the late 1920s, the BH-21 remained in service between 1925 and 1933, when it was replaced by the same company's BH-33

 
Type: Avia BH-22 single seat advanced aerobatic trainer.
Max Speed: 134 mph at sea level.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service ceiling 20,340 ft.
Range: ??? miles.
Armament: none.
Photo: Musee de Air
Derived from the BH-21 fighter, the BH-22 gave the Czechoslovak air force long and valuable service as a fighter trainer.

 
Type: Avia BH-9 two seat primary training and liaison plane.
Max Speed: 98 mph at optimum altitude.
Climb Rate: ??? ft per min.
Service Ceiling: 14,765 ft.
Range: 292 miles.
Armament: None.
Photo: Coll. Avia News
The B-9 was the military version of the BH-9, and was used in small numbers by the Czechoslovak air arm.

 
Type: Avia B.534-IV single seat fighter and fighter bomber.
Max Speed: 245 mph at 14,435 ft.
Climb Rate: 2,953 ft per min. 
Service Ceiling: 34,775 ft.
Range:360 miles.
Armament: four 0.303-in (7.7-mm) machine gun, and six 44 lb bombs.
Photo: Musee de Air
At the time of the Munich crisis in the fall of 1938, the B.534 was the backbone of the fighter arm deployed by soon to disappear Independent Czechoslovakia.

 
Type: Aero L-39 light attack aircraft.
Max Speed: 391 mph.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 36,090 ft.
Range: 621 miles.
Armament: Under-fuselage centerline gun pod with twin barrel
23 mm gun. Four under wing weapons pylons for up to 1,000 lb.
of Western or Soviet origin weapons including bombs and rockets launchers.
Photo: Unknown
 

 
Type: Aero L-509 Multi-Role Combat Aircraft.
Max Speed: 596 mph.
Climb Rate:
Service Ceiling: 43,300 ft.
Range: 1,5572 miles.
Armament: Up to 5,159 lb of external stores on one centerline and six wing pylons, including laser guided and free fall iron bombs.
Photo: Unknown
 

 

 

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