April 23, 1946 marked the first flight of the Bell L-39, an experimental aircraft used to study swept-wing flight ...

It started with a phone call from Mira Slovak, the legendary Czech pilot and Cold War-era defector who raced hydroplanes and won the first National Championship Air Races in 1964 at Sky Ranch, Nevada.

The state-owned enterprise LOM Praha took delivery of the first L-39 Skyfox training aircraft for use at the Pardubice Flight Training Centre in the Czech Republic, it was announced on 22 January.

The Hungarian Air Force received the first three L-39 Skyfox aircraft out of a total order of 12 signed in 2022, of which four will be in a reconnaissance configuration. On May 30, 2025, the Hungarian ...