The Vultur is the Romanian name for the aircraft that is known in Yugoslavia/Serbia as Orao. Many airframes were not finished yet by the time of this visit, they never were.

One of the undoubted stars of the Romanian aviation industry is the IAR-93 Vultur, a type that can not be missed with the National Military Museum.

Nicely repainted IAR-93A; its serial is yet to be applied.

This Vultur/Orao made its last flight around 1997 and was then stored at the airbase in Craiova, Romania. Fortunately, in autumn 2006 the plane was dismantled and transported to Košice by road for display at the at the Múzeum Letectva Košice.

For me this is an Orao, but the Yugoslav and Romanian brother peoples could not even find a common name for their joint attack aircraft. Nationalism ran so high that first flights had to take place on the same day at Batajnica and Bacău on 31 October 1974. The Yugoslav civil war did terminate Romanian production in 1992 and the type was retired from Romanian service in 1998.