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AERO HOLDING JOINT STOCK COMPANY  
Founded in 1990. Has important interests in Aero Vodochody, Let Kunovice, Letov Praha, Walter Praha, Technometra Praha - Radotin, AXL Semily, and the VZLU research and test institute.

AERO TOVARNA LETADEL Dr KABES 
Founded in Prague 1919. Owned originally by a lawyer, this company made accessories as well as building aircraft. Built copies of Austrian Phonix (Brandenburg) biplanes, but later developed own designs. A-11 and A- 30, both international record-breakers, were two-seat reconnaissance biplanes of 1920s and 1930s; A-34 was a light two-seater; A-35 a four-passenger monoplane; A- 38 a nine-seat cabin biplane. By early 1930s company was making A100 two-seat multipurpose aircraft and A102 fighter. Aero M.B.200 was French Marcel Bloch bomber, license-built, and partly subcontracted to Avia; Aero 204 was eight-passenger civil monoplane; a military development of this aircraft was designated Aero 304. A fast medium bomber was tested in 1938, but war prevented its production. 

AERO VODOCHODY LTD.  
Current name for Aero Vodochody Narodni Podnik. In May 1997 the Board selected a consortium made up of Boeing, the former McDonnell Douglas, and CSA Czech Airlines to take a major stake in the company as strategic investors. Product range comprises the L-39 Albatros, L-59, L-139 Albatros 2000 (using US engine and avionics) and L159 ALCA jet trainers and light combat aircraft, and the Ae 270 Ibis transport as a partner with AIDC in Ibis Aerospace. 

AERO VODOCHODY NARODNI PODNIK 
Established July 1,1953, perpetuating the old Czech name Aero. Received Red Banner award of the Ministry of Engineering and UVOS seven times. Achieved technical distinction and international success 1963-1974, when major product (for several countries) was Delfin jet trainer (first flown April 1959; more than 3,000 built). Type succeeded in production in late 1972 by L-39 Albatros jet trainer and light attack aircraft (first flown November 1968), following its selection as standard jet trainer of all Warsaw Pact countries except Poland; L-39 as part of training system, comprising also special simulator, ejection training simulator and mobile automatic test equipment. See Aero Vodochody Ltd.

AEROTECHNIK CZ SRO 
Produced the L13 Vivat motorgliders, recently out of production. Developed with Evektor Ltd. of same address in Kunovice the EV-97 Eurostar two-seat light or ultralight monoplane. Also offers the P 220 UL sports two-seater in kit form in light and ultralight versions, and is marketing the braced high-wing two-seat Fox (a variant of the German Ikarusflug Eurofox, with Evektor of the Czech Republic having undertaken important design work, and Aeropro of Slovakia building airframes for Fox and Eurofox). 

AEROTRADE SRO 
Currently produces the Racak 2 composited-built ultralight 

AERO VODOCHODY NARODNI PODNIK 
Established July 1,1953, perpetuating the old Czech name Aero. Received Red Banner award of the Ministry of Engineering and UVOS seven times. Achieved technical distinction and international success 1963-1974, when major product (for several countries) was Delfin jet trainer (first flown April 1959; more than 3,000 built). Type succeeded in production in late 1972 by L-39 Albatros jet trainer and light attack aircraft (first flown November 1968), following its selection as standard jet trainer of all Warsaw Pact countries except Poland; L-39 as part of training system, comprising also special simulator, ejection training simulator and mobile automatic test equipment. See Aero Vodochody Ltd. 

ATECVOS 
Has developed the Zephyr 2 two-seat ultralight. 

AUTOMEDIA SRO 
Has developed the JK-1 twin-boom single-seat ultralight.

AVIA AKCIOVA SPOLECNOST PRO PRUMYSL LETECKY 
Original Avia company founded 1919. Taken over by Milos Bondy a Spol about 1923, but acquired 1926 by Skoda, which also made Hispano-Suiza air engines under license. Early Avia designers were Benes and Hajn: hence initials in aircraft designations. BH-1 was light sporting two-seater; BH-3 a low-wing strut-braced single-seat fighter for the Czechoslovak National Defense Ministry; BH-25 a fiveseater; BH-26 a two-seat fighter; BH-33 a single-seat biplane fighter developed from the BH-21. Company made Fokker F.VII/3m under license, and Avia FIV IX was a Fokker-designed bomber. Before the war the company built fast metal-skinned transports of original design: Avia 51, 56, and 57. B 534 biplane was outstanding single-seat biplane fighter (445 built) used by Czechoslovak Air Force and widely considered best of class in Continental Europe. B 71 was Soviet-designed monoplane bomber; S 199 was post-war improvised development of German Bf 109. In 1945 factories were reconstituted under Government, but production of Avia 36 light monoplane was resumed and Douglas C-47s were converted for civil use. Soviet 11-14M built as Avia 14.

BENES & MRAZ TOVARNA NA LETADLA 
Founded 1935 by P. Benes, well-known designer of light aircraft, in conjunction with the industrialist J. Mraz. Benes had been a founder of the Avia company, and subsequently chief designer of Ceskoslovenska-Kolben-Danek (CKD Praga, q.v.). Producers of several different types of oneand two-seat lightweight sporting aircraft.

BTA TOP-AIR SRO 
Company formerly known as Swing spol sro, marketing the two-seat Tango (formerly Swing) light composites-built monoplane.

BONDY, MILOS, & COMPANY  ==>  Avia Akciova Spolecnost pro Prumysl Letecky. above

CESKOMORA VSKA-KOLBEN-DANEK  ==>  CKD-Praga. below

CESKOSLOVENSKE ZAVODY AUTOMOBILOVE A LETECKE, NARODNI PODNIK 
Blanket title: Czech Automobile and Aircraft Works, National Corporation, covering all national manufacture from 1945 until mid-1950s. The Zavody Letecke (aircraft works) incorporated the former Aero, CKD-Praga and Letov factories, plus Walter (engines), while Avia, Mraz and Zlin plus the Skoda car works came under Zavody Automobilove. Built under license several Soviet types (llyushin 11-14 and -28, MiG-15). Czech designations for MiG-15 were CS-102, S-103; 11-14 built as Avia 14. Early indigenous products included theTom-8 (or L-208) two-seat trainer; L-40 Meta- Sokol four-seat light trainer/tourer; L-60 Brigadyr three/four-seat light STOL monoplane; Zlin 226 Trener and 326 Trener-Master; Aero 145 and Super Aero; L-200 Morava four/five-seat twin-engined air taxi/business aircraft; and HC-2 Heli-Baby and HC-3 light helicopters.

EVEKTOR LTD.  ==> Aerotechnik CZ sro.  above

FIRMA BVL 
Has developed the Qualt 200L two-seat monoplane.

INTER WORK  
Produced the TL-32 Typhoon and TL-132 Condor two-seaters in assembled and kit forms, joined by TL-96 Star, TL-232 Condor, and TL-532 Fresh two-seaters under the later company name TL Ultralight

INTERPLANE LTD.  
Produces the Griffon and Skyboy ultralights.

JORA SPOL  
Produced the Jora side-by-side two-seat cabin monoplane in kit form, constructed of composites and wood. 

KAPPA SPOL 
Produces the KP-2U Sova two-seat low-wing lightplane, first flown May 1996.

KABES, Dr AERO TOVARNA LETADEL ==> above Aero Tovarna. 

LET MONT SRO 
Offers the Tulak two-seat cabin monoplane in assembled and kit forms. 

LETECKE OPRAVNY KBELY (LOK) 
State-owned repair works that in mid-1990s had anticipated privatization and development of the Family Air lightplane.

LETECKY NARODNI PODNIK 
Produced a large number of successful aircraft before Second World War under the name of Aero (q.v.). Established at Kunovice in 1950, initially for license production of the Soviet Yak-11 and the Z-37 Cmelak, Aero 45 and L-200DMorava. See LetAS above. 

LETOV AS 
First flew in May 1997 the L-11 side-by-side two-seat basic trainer and glider-towing lightplane, but in 1998 was in financial difficulties and required investor to complete development. Then also offering LK-2 Sluka single-seat microlight (first flown 1991), LK-3 Nova two-seat microlight/ homebuilt (first flown 1993), and ST-4 Aztek two-seat microlight (1996 type), all three in assembled or kit forms.

MASARYKOVA LETECKA LIGA ==> below  Zlin.

MORAVAN NARODNI PODNIK  ==> above MORAVAN INC.  

MORAVKO-SLEZKA VAZOVKA TATRA 
Founded in 1935 as part of the Ringhoff-Tatra combine. Obtained licenses to build the Avro 626 as T.126, and the Bucker Bu 131 Jungmann as the T.131. Produced also an own-design two-seat trainer under the designation T.1. Ceased production at the outbreak of Second World War.  

OK FLY SRO 
Producer of hang glider skins and windsurfer sails. Also expected to put its Lesus side-by-side two-seat monoplane into production. 

RINGHOFFER-TATRAAS 
Aviation department of the Ringhoffer-Tatra combine was formed in 1935. Built the Bucker Jungmann trainer under license as the Tatra T.131, the T.1 two-seat cabin monoplane, and the T.126 biplane trainer. Production was stopped by Second World War.

SKODA-KAUBA FLUGZEUGBAU 
Founded spring 1942 at Cakowitz, near Prague. Worked for Germans. Experimental types included Sk-V4 light fighter-trainer with German Argus engine. SK257 development received German production order; five completed before Russians captured factory 

SWING SPOL SRO 
Former name for BTA Top-Air sro (above)

TL ULTRALIGHT  ==> above Interwork. 

UNIS, OBCHODNI SPOL, SRO 
Has developed and flown the NA 40-Bongo two-seat and twin-turboshaft light helicopter without a tail rotor. Deliveries expected 1999.

URBAN AVIATION SRO 
Markets its UFM 11 and UFM 13 Lambada compositesbuilt two-seat monoplanes in completed and kit forms.

VOJENSKA   
Vojenska tovarna na letadla Letov created 1923, initially building the designs of Alois Smolik. Major output centered on S-1/S-2 reconnaissance/light bomber biplanes; S-4 fighter of 1922; S-6 bomber; S-10 trainer (licensed from Hansa-Brandenburg); S-16 long-range reconnaissance biplane, built late 1920s/early 1930s for Czechoslavakia, Latvia and Turkey; S-18 trainer; S-19 four-passenger civil transport; S-20 biplane fighter; S-21 trainer version of S- 20; S-32 five-passenger high-wing tri-motor; and the S- 328/528 series of reconnaissance/light bomber biplanes. Also undertook license production of Tupolev SB-2 twin-engined monoplane bomber. Built Arado and Junkers types during German occupation 1940-1945.

ZAVODY 
The Skoda company was the largest industrial organisation in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, manufacturing engines of indigenous design alongside license-built Hispano- Suizaand Lorraine Dietrich aero engines, Dewoitine aircraft and Curtiss Reed propellers. Skodovy Zavody had a controlling interest in the Czech Avia company (q.v.) and in Ceskoslovenska Letecka Spolecnost, the Czech airline. Parent company has also made cars, firearms, etc. 

ZMAJ 
Fabrica Aeroplana I Hydroplana Zmaj founded in 1927 by Jovan Petrovic to produce under license the Hanriot H-41, Gourdou-Leseurre B-3 and Dewoitine D-27 fighters. Indigenous designs included a Wright-engined observation aircraft, an observation seaplane, and the two-seat Fizir AF-2 Amphibian.

ZLIN ^{2    526  Z.50 
Zlinska Letecka Akciova Spolecnost formed 1934 as subsidiary of Bata Shoe Company. First aircraft produced was Zlin XII two-seat, low-wing cabin monoplane, followed by Zlin 381, a licence-built Bucker Bu 181 Bestmann. The Zlin 22 appeared in 1947 as a two-seat trainer and was produced also in three-seat Zlin 22M version. Company name changed to Moravan (q.v.) in 1949, although products continued to be known as Zlins. See Moravan Inc.}

République tchèque (Tchéquie)   

AERO HOLDING JOINT STOCK COMPANY 
AERO VODOCHODY LTD. 
AEROTECHNIK CZ SRO 
AEROTRADE SRO 
 ATECVOS 
AUTOMEDIA SRO 
BTA TOP-AIR SRO 
EVEKTOR LTD. 
FIRMA BVL 
INTECO 
INTER WORK 
INTERPLANE LTD. 
JORA SPOL 
KAPPA SPOL 
LET AS 
LET MONT SRO 
LETECKE OPRAVNY KBELY (LOK) 
LETOV AS 
MORAVAN INC. 
MSP AIR SPOL SRO 
OK FLY SRO 
SWING SPOL SRO 
TIB 
TL ULTRALIGHT
UNIS, OBCHODNI SPOL, SRO 
URBAN AVIATION SRO

LIENS & sources  

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