This old Bumble Bee is preserved outside, and acts as a billboard for) a Getränkemarkt (these are everywhere in Germany, a sort of beverage cash-and-carry, hence the fake DRINK registration) in this Hamburg suburb. It was previously registered DM-SSY, DDR-SSY (Agrarflug) and D-ESSY (Flugservice Berlin). The ex-registration D-ERMY is also given by some sources.

One of many Z-37s parked or stored on the ramp at LZNI.

One of many Z-37s parked or stored on the ramp at LZNI.

This Bumble Bee was previously DM-SVK and DDR-SVK before being registered D-ESVK after German re-unification. After a few years of storage at Rostock - Laage (RLG / ETNL) the plane was re-activated and registered to D-ESSH but is now preserved close to the Großbreitenbach, railway station.

Pictured taking off on rw25L for a very nice spraying display.

Ex DDR-SSL. Registered in 1990 and deregistered 1993. Seen here stored at the former Russian helicopter base Parchim-Mecklenburg

On display beneath the Alpincenter Hamburg-Wittenburg

Pictured departing off rw24R at the end of the Aviation Day for the 100th Anniversary of Aeroclub České Budějovice

Pictured taking off on rw25L for a very nice joint Cmelak display with OK-KLN.

This Bumble Bee was first registered in November 1972 and last flew in June 1996. It is now part pf this super private collection.

Pictured parked/stored on the grass at LKCR.

The sixth prototype of the Z-37 and was delivered in July, 1965 ( to what?) later being registered OK-UJE with flight testing carried out in the USSR. In August 1967 it was transferred to the Aviation Research Institute (VZLÚ) in Prague but sometime in 1968 was damaged by a hurricane but rebuilt using parts (wings, center plane, engine) from Z-37 cn 007, OK-UJC. It made its last flight in June, 1974, completing just over 477 hours and 2514 take-offs. It was transferred to VHÚ (Kbely museum parent organisation) in January 1975 and has been on loan to this fire-fighting museum since April 2011.

Ex DM-SVQ and DDR-SVQ. To Flugservice Berlin between 1990-1992 as D-ESVQ. To PS Aero in 2018 and moved to this location in June 2019.

This aircraft was used between 1984 and 1985 to test the suitability of the Z-37T for military work. The aircraft was demilitarized and placed on the Czechoslovak civil register as OK-PJD in March of 1986. It was struck from the Czechoslovak register in 2005 and sold to a Hungarian owner. It sat derelict in outdoor storage in Hungary from 2005 to 2016. I took this picture of the aircraft about a month after a crew from Letecké Muzeum Kunovice brought it back from Hungary to restore it.