Special livery for the 25th anniversary of the Mirage 3E with French AF. on the side the badges of all units having been equipped with this acft: EC 1/2 , 3/2 , 1/3 , 2/3 , 3/3 , 1/4 , 2/4 , 1/13 , 2/13.

Special livery for the 25th anniversary of the Mirage 3E with French AF. on the side the badges of all units having been equipped with this acft: EC 1/2 , 3/2 , 1/3 , 2/3 , 3/3 , 1/4 , 2/4 , 1/13 , 2/13.

Manufactured in December 1957 by VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden and delivered to the East German Air Force as 403 in March 1958. Re-registered to 426 in November 1958. Call-sign was DM-VAL. Wfu in 1977 and donated to the Hungarian Air Force museum in 1980. Displayed at the Szolnoki Repüléstörténeti Kiállítóhely Museum in Hungarian Air Force colours over all the years. But now the East German emblem is visible again. I took this photo with a ladder over the wall of the closed museum. But got trouble with military police after a while.

The He 72 Kadett looks rather like the Fw 44 Stieglitz, but the main landing gear is very different and there is a strut supporting the tailskid. According to the German Wikipedia, He 72 production terminated in 1937 after 768 airframes, including 495 built by Fieseler. It also says that 629 Kadetts remained in Luftwaffe service in 1940, and 417 in January 1944. The Werknummer (c/n) on the tailfin looks like 426 in this and another photo but I'm not sure. It is certainly three-digit, which would indicate a Fieseler, not a Heinkel c/n. The badge belongs to Flugzeugführerschule A/B 24, which was based in Olomouc, Czechia for most of WWII.

This East German built Il-14 was delivered as 403 to the NVA with a cargo interior but without the large cargo door and seating for 24/28 passengers. It was re-registered 426 in November 1958 and used the call sign DM-VAL as neccessary. The plane was damaged after a belly landing at Schoenefeld (SXF) in August 1969 but repaired. It was finally wfu in December 1980 and flown for the last time to LHSN as gift to this (Hungarian AF) museum, where it was preserved in these fake colours. Alas, after the museum's closure its fate is rather bleak.

All M-3E (camoflaged) from Escadron de Chasse (EC) 3/2 "Alsace" M-3B (others) from Escadron de Chasse et de Transformation (ECT) 2/2 "Côte d'Or"