Ex-Yugoslav Air Force 60210 and F-AZEQ

The design team for the SOKO 522 was led by a Slovenian and so it is fitting than one is on display at this museum. The frame was on display for some time at the Kbely museum in Prague. Its real serial is 60123.

Adorned with a Serbian roundel, although cleary operated in the Yugoslav' years, this Soko 522 is seen here in Gospodjinci, Serbia.

Preserved as a monument to Major Mileta Protić who was born in Tovariševo and became a distinguished seaplane pilot with the Yugoslav navy before WWII. He was elected as the first Commander of the 1st Yugoslav Squadron allied with Marshall Tito. On his 66th and last combat mission, Commander Protić took off on December 19, 1944 from Can airport, in Italy, and was killed whilst bombing a column of tanks near the town of Žepče in central Bosnia.

This memorial is on the site of a WWII airfield from which the 423rd Aviation Regiment flew combat operations in March 1943.

60153 was built in 1959 or 1960. In 1978 the 522 type was retired from service. This one ended up in the storage area of the Muzej Vazduhoplovstva Beograd where it was first noted in Jun-1997. The aircraft behind it are IJ-21 24457 and J-21 24159, and the fin belongs to NJ-22 25509. The nose to the right is J-21 24122.

The design team for the SOKO 522 was led by a Slovenian and so it is fitting than one is on display at this super museum. This example on display wears a fake serial as in service it was 60123. The frame was on display for some time at the Kbely museum in Prague.

23500 is a fake serial, it really is 60123. After service it was originally in Mostar, but it moved to the Letecké Muzeum Kbely in Czechia where it was noted in Nov-2008. In 2009 it was moved to Slovenia and became an exhibit in the Park Vojaške Zgodovine (Park of Military History) in Pivka. A total of 112 Soko 522s was built, production ending in 1961. It served in the Yugoslav Air Force from 1954 to 1978 as a trainer/light combat aircraft. The type was used in a number of movies, e.g. The Battle of Neretva, or Kelly's Heroes as stand-in for German Fw-190s.

Built for the Yugoslav Air Force as 60121 in 1957. To N121DV in 1989.

The aircraft was preserved in a park between Blok 9 and Blok 11 on the Bulevar Nikola Tesle. It is now gone.

during the civil was this aircraft was bombed at Cakovec airfield. After the war the remains were put on display.

This vintage aircraft was allegedly damaged when a MiG-21 attacked this little airfield during the war in 1991. Wreck no longer in this position.

Battered wreck of a Soko 522 trainer at Cakovec airfield in northern Croatia. No longer in this position.