A view of some of the stored frames at PRG, either directly as a result of the downturn or have returned from leases. M-ABOI was formerly PK-GMK and has been in storage at PRG since January 2022.

This plane was originally delivered to Air France as F-GFXF in December 2002. It flew with them until wfu in October 2013. A spell from February 2014 until October 2019 followed with Brussels Airlines as OO-SNG and then to CSA in February 2020. The plane either is waiting for or has just been in for a check at the maintenance hangar out of shot on the right. Note the old and new form of the CSA tail logo.

It isn't everyday one sees a British Airways 738! This plane was originally delivered to Pegasus as TC-ARP in May 2011. It flew with them until May 2019 and then went to South Afirca as ZS-ZWX with Comair until May 2021. It was ferried to PRG in September 2021 and given the lessor registration OE-LCE (with which I had seen it only a few days previously but too blocked to photograph). The clue is in the registration and the plane is now due to be delivered to Sun Country.

The Djinn was the first mass produced turbine helicopter and the first French helicopter. It made its first flight in June 1953 and initially two single seat prototypes were built. The production version had two seats and a relatively undistinguished military and civilian career followed.

This is one of four prototypes and was the airframe used as the Rafale A technology demonstrator, making its first flight in July 1986. The plane was TOC by the French AF but operated by Dassault and flew concurrently with its military serial and the civil registration F-ZWRE. Later it became a flying test bed for the Snecma M88 turbofan engine as the left powerplant. The right powerplant retained the original GE F404. The plane made its 867th and last flight on 4th January 1994 before being donated to the museum for display in April 2009.

This is the second caravelle prototype and made its first flight in April 1956 as F-WHHI. In March 1957 it was re-registered F-BHHI and painted into an Air France colour scheme for promotional purposes. The frame was withdrawn in January 1976 and scrapped in the coming autumn. This nose section is preserved in the museum and has slightly different markings on each side.

Pictured being puched back into its parking position on the Jetex FBO ramp at LFPB.

Pictured being pulled out of its parking position on the Jetex FBO ramp at LFPB in order to depart. The fence borders the museum area and so they probably don't want an old grand-mère to be blown away by the jet blast.

Pictured parked up on the Jetex FBO ramp at LFPB.

This coaxial, contra-rotating helicopter was built by the Marquis Raúl Pateras Pescara de Castelluccio and is the only survivor to illustrate the work of this giant pioneer of rotary flight. The Pescara Model 2R was the first helicoopter capable of hovering for 1 minute at a height of 1 m. This exhibit is one of the oldest in the museum and one of the last machines built by Pescara, probably from elements taken from its previous helicopters. The museum do not attribute it as a 4S but it contains the Salmson 9 radial engine with a small cooling propeller, so possibly a pre-4S test frame.

This Triton has the distinction of being the first French indigenously-designed jet-powered aircraft to be flown. Its first flight was in November 1946 and marked quite an achievement after the problems the country's aircraft industry faced following WWII. The plane was initially underpowered and soon obsolete so the project was abandoned with five aicraft in the test-program. This is the third frame produced (second flying and first with the RR Nene engine) and is on display incorporating parts from 05 F-WFKX.

The Farman HF-20 and its derivatives were a family of reconnaissance aircraft produced in France shortly before and during WWI. The plane was seriously underpowered, and a variety of engines were trialled in the hope of correcting this. The problem was eventually solved only when an engine of twice the power of the original powerplant was fitted to the HF.27 variant, by which time the aircraft was already obsolete.

Pictured about to land on rw05L.

Pictured about to do a touch-and-go on rw05L.

Pictured taxying out to rw05R for departure.

This Huey was built as a UH-1D and TOC by the US Army in February 1967 but from August to October it underwent conversion to a UH-1H. From April 1968 until February 1971 it was stationed in Vietnam, after which it was on loan to the University of Michigan, flew as an air ambulance in West Germany and went on loan to NASA, flew as part of the Panama Canal protection force but by 1986 had been transferred to the Illinois ANG before retirement. It is pictured here as part of the Yankee Museum's Vietnam exhibit but was later restored to airworthy status and in September 2019 registered to Northwest Helicopters as N876GM. It was one of two Huey's that YAM traded in for a UH-1 66-1126/N240GH in airworthy condition.

This Blaník was built in 1971 and ended up a long way from home. It was de-registered in September 2013 and now hangs from the ceiling in the super Yankee Air Force Museum building.

This F-4 was in service with the USAF from 1964 until 1988. It is photographed here in the Vietnam War section of this very interedting museum.

This plane was originally delivered in May 2011 and is pictured at the CSA/Travel Service/Smartwings maintenance facility at LKPR.

Currently in storage, along with some buddies, at LKPR.