is a memory. Like previous years, this year’s unforgettable spectacle brought strong experiences.

For the memory:

For the first time in this millennium, the largest single-engine fighter plane of its time, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt “Nellie B”, will arrive in the Czech Republic and will thus become the “HEADLINER” of this year’s 14th Contemporary Aviation Day 2024!
It is the largest and heaviest single-seat piston engine fighter aircraft in history and the most numerous American fighter aircraft ever built. It was a very successful escort aircraft at high altitudes and a formidable attack aircraft.
“Nellie” was built in 1945 at the Republic Evansville, Indiana factory. The aircraft was numbered 45-49192 and was originally built as a P-47D-40-RA. Details of his service with the USAAF are unknown,
although in the final months of the war he served with the AirTraining Command and was eventually stationed at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma with the Air Materiel Command. After the signing of the Rio Pact,
it was restored to full operational status at Hensley Field in Texas in 1952, and was entered into the military assistance program in September of that year.
In 1953, it became part of a group of P-47 aircraft that entered the Peruvian Air Force, where it served until 1967, first as a front-line fighter and then as a trainer fighter.
You can read more details about its history  here.

foto Jakub Vaněk

We are happy to be able to confirm another beautiful machine with an already traditional display, the airplane you fly with on vacation!
Smartwings’ Boeing 737 will arrive at Aviation Day 2024

It is important to remember the heroism of our airmen who fought in England.
In addition to fighter planes, this section will be reminded of Tigermoth and Miles Magister training machines, who will fly to us together with the Aero 145 from Podhořany!

The sleek shapes from the Art Deco era will be complemented by the Spartan Executive and Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor airplanes.
These twin-engined machines were the successors to the Lockheed Electra L-10 aircraft made famous by Amélie Erhart.
This beautiful Electra Junior will arrive from Germany together with the Spartan aircraft!

We have presented the Spitfire aircraft several times in the past years. But it will be shown for the first time here in the Mk.XIV version.
This particular piece was delivered to the Royal Air Force in January 1945 and assigned to Canada’s No. 430 Squadron based at Eindhoven, Holland, where it flew with the code G9-X. RM927, assigned to the Second Tactical Air Force.
It is one of the few Griffon-engined Spitfires that participated in combat and reconnaissance missions on the European front. On 9 March 1945, RM927 was damaged by flak in flight just behind the cockpit, resulting in its withdrawal from the line.
Stored, it was sold to the Belgian Air Force in November 1947, where it received the serial number SG-25 and the code 3R-D. It was used by young pilots from Koksijde and some time later it was repainted in metallic gray color with IQ-W codes.
Accidentally damaged in 1952, RM927 was grounded and stored before being scrapped for good in 1954.
The aircraft then traveled from workshop to workshop without its renovation being completed.
The RM927 was finally acquired by the French W Air Collection in late 2020.

So that there are not too many acrobatic specials, we have prepared for you a rarely seen aerobatic special Sukhoi SU-29,
which will be performed by Jan Sobotka, a member of the Aeroclub Mladá Boleslav and also a member of the organizing team of the HISTORCAL AIRSHOW!
We are also preparing another competition for you, in which the prize will be a flight with this unique special!
We will publish more information and the competition itself in the middle of the month.

As every year, we will also allow you to arrive by your own plane this year.
From May 1, 2024, arrival slots will be available on our website.
We also ask you to study the arrival information so as not to disrupt the schedule and safety of all of us.

Unfortunately for technical reasons

Two Mustangs only.

LOM PRAHA s.p., which operates historic aircraft and will send a Yak C-11 aircraft to HAS 2024,
will enrich the program with another important machine of Czechoslovak aviation, namely the licensed version
airplane Búcker 181, in Czechoslovak version Zlín Z-381 “Basa”.
These aircraft were the main type of pilot training in Czechoslovak aero clubs,
including ours in Mladá Boleslav.
This aircraft flies in our territory only in one representation.