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Brána do historie title screen.

TV Series (2015 - )

Starring:
Jakub Vrána (narrator)

The gate to history (Brána do historie) maps the essential moments of Czech and Czechoslovak history. In cooperation with the Military Historical Institute Prague, reporter Jakub Vrána will bring exclusive information, unique photographs and film footage.

Episode 1 Epizody z konce 2 sv války

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Episode 2 Československo proti nacismu

Unidentified Aircraft

Arado Ar 65

Dornier Do 24

Arado Ar 68F

Heinkel He 51

Avia B-534

Wallpaper is displaying Avia B-534s during an air parade.

Avia B-534 ?

Avia B-534, 2nd series, of 32th squadron, 4th Air Regiment (Letecký pluk č. 4).

Avia F.39 (license built Fokker F.IX)

Potez 542

Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.

Bloch MB.200 & Farman F.222

Farman in foreground of several Bloch 200.

Farman 222.

Zlín Z-43

Bloch MB.200

Three different aircrafts of the French Air Force.

Aero MB.200

Aero MB.200 (c/n 86) of the 6th Squadron.

Aero MB.200 (c/n 36) of the 6th Air Group, 86th Squadron.

(cockpit)

Amiot 144

The Amiot 144 is a prototype with a retractable gear as main difference with the 143. But the wing is brand new too (reduced wing area) and the manufacturer never solved some aileron malfunction so state experimental center had rejected the aircraft.

Bloch MB.300 & Farman F.222

Episode 3 Okupace Československa

Douglas DC-2

Two DC-2s of KLM-Royal Dutch Air Lines.

Perhpas PH-AJU nowadays but (if right), the real registration is NC39165 (c/n 1404)). The original PH-AJU is under heavy restoration after years of gate guardian on a pole.

Douglas DC-3-194C

Reg. PH-ARE Douglas DC-3-194C c/n 1981. Later reg. PK-AFZ.

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Reg. PH-PBA was a former C-47 c/n 19434 s/n 42-100971. It served as the government plane (PBA stand for Prince Bernhard Alpha) from 1946 (anachronism regarding the subject).

Episode 6 Pražské povstání

Ar 396A-2

Arado Ar 396A-2 Wr Nr 460042.

Episode 7 Konec 2 světové války v Československu

Lavochkin La-5F

Lavochkin La-5F code 71.

Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik

Episode 9 Předválečná československá vojenská technika

Unidentified Aircraft

Episode 10 Migy na dálnici D1

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 F-13

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 PF

Mil Mi-8

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 MF

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 BN

Episode 12 Tragédie Velké války

Unidentified Aircraft

Episode 15 Modrý den

Short movie (1953) about the National meeting.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 & Ilyushin Il-14

Letov LF-107 Luňák

Reg. OK-0877.

Reg. OK-O841.

Reg OK-0821.

Pleško SP-2 & Unidentified Sailplane

Reg. OK-3098 Pleško SP-2 and unknown OK-8742.

Ilyushin Il-10

Yakovlev Yak-23 Flora (S-101)

Yakovlev Yak-23 (known as Flora among NATO pilots) soldiered on Československé vojenské letectvo (Czechoslovak Air Force) from 1949. Among the twenty S-101 used by Czechoslovakia, we can see IF-10, IF-11, IF-13, IF-15 & IF-17.

Aero S-102

At least forty S-102 in a sight !

The main visual difference between a S-102 (MiG-15) and a S-103 (MiG-15 bis) is the shape of the speedbrake.

Aero S-102 speedbrake.

Zlin Z-24 Krajánek

Reg. OK-8?34 (and OK-8118 in the background).

Douglas C-47 Skytrain

Zlin Z-381 (C-106)

Airframes produced for the Československé vojenské letectvo were named C-106 by the Air force.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 bis

MiG-15 bis of the Moscow Military District PVO aerobatic display team, the 'Red Falcons'.

Episode 17 První léta nové totality

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

Closing the cockpit.

Episode 19 Mobilizace 1938

Avia B-534 Series II

Avia F.39 (license built Fokker F.IX)

Avia B-534 Series IV

Episode 26 Transport historických exponátů

Filmed at Múzejné oddelenie Piešťany (Museum of Military History, Piešťany, Slovakia) on 2012.

Mikoyan MiG-29 A

MiG-29A s/n 7702 (c/n 2960526377) from 11 Sqn, Czech Air Force. In December 1995 the Czech Republic sold her to Poland where she's now flying as '77'.

MiG-29A s/n 8003 (c/n 2960526380). After the break-up of Czechoslovakia on December 31st 1992, she soldiered on for Slovakia. Last flight on February 13, 1995. At the Military History Museum in Piestany from 14 March 2012.

Let L-410 Turbolet

Two airframes in the background.

Yakovlev Yak-11

Painted in green at right. Unidentified yellow glider is hung to the ceiling.

Mil Mi-24 & Mil Mi-8

Background. The Mil Mi-24 noze is covored.

Episode 29 Technické památky v Česku

Location : Národní technické muzeum (National Technical Museum), Prague, Czech Republic.

Kantor-Kuklik Racek 3 & Praha PB.3

Reg. OK-8340 Kantor-Kuklik Racek 3 hung alongside a Praha PB.3. Between their two white wings, we guess the Etrich E.VIII Limusina. Bottom, we guess the two-seat Avia BH-9 by the flag paint on its wing.

Various Aircraft

1 : Praha PB.3
2 : Etrich E.VIII Limusina
3 : Knoller C II (1917) which hides a Supermarine Spitfire (LF Mk.IXE on the ground among cars)
4 : Reg. OK-AVO Avia BH-10
5 : Reg. OK-IRF Zlin_Z-50 LA

Unidentified Aircraft

Zlin Z-XIII & Upgraded Blériot XI

In front of the Zlin Z-XIII (reg. OK-TBZ), the plane that Jan Kašpar used on 16 April 1910 for the first indigenous flight in the Czech lands. It's a Blériot XI (c/n 76) the flyer modified before its famous long-haul flight which took place on 13 May 1911.

Episode 31 Unikátní exponáty VHÚ

Petlyakov Pe-2

Aero C-3A

Aero C-3A at Prague Aviation Museum, just under the Let L-13 Blanik (reg. OK-4835) and (top right) OK-9801 Vyvojova Skupina Morava VSM-40 Demant.

Episode 33 Kapitoly 2. Světové války

Messerschmitt Bf 109 D

Messerschmitt Bf 110 D

Probably BM+BL.

Junkers Ju 87 B Stuka

Various Supermarine Spitfire

Hawker Hurricane Mk I

Pilots of No. 310 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF in front of Hawker Hurricane Mk I P3143 NN-D at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, 7 September 1940. Aircraft lost on the 16th October 1940.