Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Flying boat - SP-BOAT

Another new aircraft registered during December 2025 is SP-BOAT - this is a Aero Adventure Aventura II a small two seat pusher engine flying boat. The aircraft has a MTOW of 650kg and is powered by either a Rotax 912 ULS or  Zonsen CA500 - the aircraft is currently based at EPNB Nieborów Bobrowniki airfield. 

 

 


 

The aircraft is available as a kit build from the Polish importers Hi-Tech Aviation. 

 

 

Friday, 12 December 2025

December 2025 - New aircraft coming soon

A social media post by the Aeroklub Warszawa in December 2025 shows brand new Cessna 208B at the factory in Independence, Kansas, USA ready for delivery to Warsaw. The aircraft is painted all white and marked as SP-WWA. The s/n is believed to be 208B5911. 

 


 

The aircraft is due to depart from Independence on Saturday 13th December 2025 and will route via Canada, Greenland, Iceland and the UK before landing in Poland. 

 

UPDATE - Cessna 208 SP-WWA arrived at Warsaw Modlin ( from Wick, Scotland ) on 18th December 2025 after completing the final leg of its long delivery flight from the USA  

 

Also new is JMB Aircraft VL-3 SP-RMRM - a social media post in December 2025 shows this new build aircraft at the JMB factory at Vysoke Myto in the Czech Republic - the aircraft is painted white/grey/red ready for delivery.  

 

 

Sunday, 26 October 2025

Koliber returns from Germany to Poland

The Aeroklub Stalowowolski at Turbia airfield near Stalowa Wola has announced they have recently bought PZL Koliber 150 D-ERUG from Germany. This Koliber s/n 03900042 was built at PZL Okecie and first flew on 12th February 1991 - it was initially delivered to the Netherlands as PH-BIJ before quickly passing onto Sweden as SE-KUG. In June 1995 it became D-ERUG. Made in Poland it's now back in Poland.

PW-5 Smyk returns to Poland from Norway

October 2025 - PW-5 Smyk LN-GWA has returned to Poland from Norway. This small single seat glider was built at PZL Swidnik in 1997 with s/n 17.08.001 and registered as LN-GWA on 4th July 1997.  

The Smyk arrived in a trailer from Norway and appears to be in excellent condition with approx 400 flight hours. The glider will now be used by the Aeroklub at Gliwice. 

 

 

 

Saturday, 25 October 2025

PZL Swidnik - exhibit new AW149

PZL Swidnik, part of the Leonardo group exhibited a newly built AW149 at the MSPO military trade fair in Kielce in September 2025. 

 


 

The helicopter was marked as 6711 in an drab olive colour scheme, but without a Polish military roundel.

This should be the third example of the AW149 to be built at PZL Swidnik ( the first being 6709 ) - eight earlier examples were delivered directly from Leonardo in Italy ( 6701-6708 ). The AW149 serves with the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade of the Polish Army ( Polish Land Forces ) based at Nowy Glinnik near Tomaszow Mazowieck. 

Update note that AW149 serial 6715 was noted test flying at PZL Swidnik in October 2025. 

 

  

 

 

Saturday, 13 September 2025

Delivery - SP-EMJ

SP-EMJ a brand new Challenger 3500 ( s/n 21076 ) departed from Montreal Dorval, Canada on 26th August on delivery en route to Poland via Keflavik Iceland - it departed Keflavik on 27th August en route to Warsaw Modlin airport, Poland.

Bombardier aircraft are based at Montreal Dorval.  

 

Photo of SP-EMJ Challenger 3500 here 

Friday, 12 September 2025

SP-JSM - New Bell 505 registration

JB Aviation announced the arrival of another brand new Bell 505 in Poland - registered as SP-JSM the helicopter has the factory S/N 65625 - built in 2025 at the Bell factory at Mirabel in Canada - this aircraft test flew with the Canadian registration C-FZEX.

  


Other Bell 505 helicopters in Poland include SP-DWM, SP-MRW, SP-PIE, SP-RMK, SP-TAW, SP-TMG and others. 

Friday, 29 August 2025

East German PZL M-18A Dromader - 1984

A photo from the Polish national archive shows M-18A Dromader DDR-TKB awaiting delivery at the PZL Mielec factory in 1984. The aircraft wears Interflug titles on the tail and shows the type as "Dromedar" ( German language ) on the engine cowling. 

 

 


This Dromader has factory serial number s/n 1Z013-22 - East Germany subsequently changed their registration prefix from DDR to DM so it would have become DM-TKB until the collapse of the Berlin Wall. In 1991 ( after German reunification ) it became D-FOHB. It was sold on to Australia becoming VH-XKK in 1996. It was later modified with a Garrett TPE-331 turbine engine at Trangie, New South Wales, completely changing the forward profile of the aircraft and became VH-TGY.

  

More info about the Turbine Dromader can be found on the web link below

 

https://aeropedia.com.au/content/pzl-m-18-dromader-turbine/   

 

Monday, 18 August 2025

News - Allstar PZL gliders

An update on a recent new glider delivery by Allstar PZL from their factory at Bieslko Biala in Poland.

Aeroklub Nowy Targ recently took delivery of a new SZD 54-2 Perkoz acrobatic training glider with the retro registration SP-2025(2) - s/n 542.A.25.044 (ie Perkoz #044 ), this was registered in May 2025 - photo below from the Lotnisko Nowy Targ social media.  

 

 


 The original SP-2025(1) was a SZD 12A Mucha 100A s/n F487 built in 1959.   

  

 

Saturday, 26 July 2025

New Bristell LSA - SP-BIAL

26th July 2025 - Skydream of Poland published a new social media post showing a brand new BRM Aero Bristell LSA 916iS at the Bristell factory in Kunovice, Czechia, ready for delivery soon to Poland. The aircraft has the ultralight ( ultralekkie ) registration SP-BIAL and appears to be s/n 807.

 

 

Photo from Skydream shows SP-BIAL in an attractive red/white colour scheme  

Monday, 14 July 2025

Registration SP-WCA - from An-2 to Airbus A321 via an Orlik

On the 11th July 2025 an Airbus A321F arrived at Shannon airport Ireland from the USA, registered as N995CM ( s/n 1619 ).  It was painted white with a maroon tail and had Warsaw Cargo titles ( a new freight airline ).

The nose wheel doors were marked "WCA" - it will shortly become SP-WCA(3). This will be the third use of this registration since 1945.

 

Web link to Warsaw Cargo airlines 

 

The original SP-WCA(1) was An-2 s/n 1G105-50, this was registered from August 1969 to May 1977 and was cancelled after an accident.

SP-WCA(2) was PZL 130T Turbo Orlik s/n 1900008 - this was previously SP-PCD.  WCA(2) was registered from October 1990 until December 1999 - after a period of storage at PZL Okecie this Orlik was sold to a private owner in the USA and became N450KM and later N552PZ - photo below shows SP-WCA(2) inside the flight test hangar at PZL Okecie.  

 

 

 Photo from Polish National Archive ( NAC )

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

Saturday, 5 July 2025

SP-LKD from LI-2 to TB-21 via 737

Summer 2025 - A recent new registration in June 2025 is SP-LKD a Socata TB-21 GT Trinidad, this is SP-LKD(3) previously OK-ABL with s/n 2197. 

 


 

The original SP-LKD was Li-2P s/n 23441501 registered in 1952 with rejestracja #462 and used by LOT until cancelled in 1966. 

LOT re-used the SP-LK_ registration range for their fleet of Boeing 737-55D in the 1990's - SP-LKD(2) being 737-55D s/n 27419 with rejestracja #3116 registered on 17th December 1992 - cancelled on 19th December 2011     

 

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Wodno Samolotem - Cessna 206 OH-STR becomes SP

February 2025 - Wodno Samolotem a Polish company has announced their accquisition of a Cessna 206H Stationair - the aircraft has been imported from Finland and was previously OH-STR s/n 20608086.

 


 

It will be registered in Poland ( SP-.... ) and then used to offer pleasure flights from the Baltic coastal resort of Mielno near Koszalin from summer 2025. 

UPDATE 4th March 2025 - Wodno Samolotem shared an image of this Cessna 206 now registered as SP-SEA - this will be SP-SEA(3).  






 



Sunday, 2 March 2025

SP-ECA PZL 104 Wilga 35A

Wilga SP-ECA s/n 62154 was built at PZL Okecie in Warsaw in 1972 and officially registerd on the 31st August 1972 as rejestracja #1382. It was one of many Wilga 35A aircraft delivered to the state run Polish Aeroklub ( AK ). The photo was taken at Inowroclaw airfield ( EPIN Inowroclaw-Kujawsko ) in August 1997 and shows SP-ECA without an engine. 

 


The registration was cancelled in February 2004 and SP-ECA sat withdrawn from use at Inowroclaw until the aircraft was sold on to Lithuania becoming LY-XCN.

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

New Pa-34 M350 - SP-WAC(4)

February 2025 - JB Aviation announced the recent delivery of a new build Piper Pa-46-350P M350. The M350 was delivered via Wroclaw ( from Prague ) on 28th Feb 2025 in a silver/blue colour scheme as SP-WAC(4) - s/n 4636856 ( ex N856SP )

 


This registration was previously been used as SP-WAC(1) Gawron 1967-1969, SP-WAC(2) Wilga 1983-1983 and SP-WAC(3) Turbo Kruk 1990-1995.

Monday, 24 February 2025

Historical - RWD 13 SP-MSZ

The Polish national archive has a huge online collection of historic images and among them are some photos of aircraft.  Pleased to see the image below of RWD 13 SP-MSZ taken in 1948. This aircraft has a lot of history - prior to WW2 it was registered as SP-BMY with s/n 231 operating as an air ambulance. During the war it escaped to Romania and is believed to have used YR-INT and serial "2", it was also fitted with a tail wheel ( originally had a tail skid ) and the engine was replaced with a DH Gipsy Major I.


 

It returned to Poland in 1947 and became SP-MSZ on 31st October 1947 ( Rejestracja #212 ) operated by the Foreign Ministry ( M.S. Zagran ie "MSZ" ) and was based at Warsaw Goclaw airfield. In 1951 the aircraft was used by defectors to flee to Sweden before it was returned to Poland.  

Friday, 21 February 2025

New BRM Bristell 916iS for Poland - SP-ADEX

Skydream the Polish agent for BRM aircraft have published a photo of a new Bristell 916iS under construction at the BRM factory  - the aircraft is painted in an attractive red/silver colour scheme with the ultralight registration SP-ADEX - it appears to be s/n 787

 


 

 



 

Thursday, 20 February 2025

New aerobatic glider - I-45 Jay

February 2025 - The Instytut Lotnictwa ( IL ) has designed a new aerobatic glider called the I-45 Jay. The single seat mid wing glider had its first flight in early 2025 and is registered as SP-GUST. The Jay has been designed to bear loads of +10g / -8g. First flight took place in December 2024 at Czestochowa-Rudniki airfield.

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 The IL will be looking to partner with a local manufacturer to produce this new aerobatic glider.

Sunday, 16 February 2025

Sold and Exported - SP-FRL and SP-VEL

February 2025 - Plane4You report two recent export sales of SP registered aircraft - SP-FRL PZL 110 Koliber 150 a long time resident at Warsaw-Bemowo ( EPBC ) was sold in Feb 2025 to Germany. This early Koliber s/n 19003 was built in 1979 at PZL Okecie ( Warsaw ) as a Koliber 100 and originally registered as SP-ZKA in September 1979 and later re-registered as SP-FRL in February 1988. It was upgraded to a Koliber 150 in 1994. 

Photo below shows this Koliber as SP-ZKA in 1985 - photo via Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe

 


Also moving on in February 2025 is Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP-VEL - this was built in 2000 with s/n 172S8510 and originally delivered a N583SP. It was sold on to Poland becoming SP-KDI in April 2005 and later re-registered in 2022 as SP-VEL. In Feb 25 the aircraft was dismantled for shipping back to the USA.

 





Monday, 29 January 2024

New Ekolot KR-030 SW Topaz delivered

Gray Light Aviation of France have posted images of a brand new Ekolot KR-030 SW Topaz from the Ekolot factory at Krosno in Poland.

 

Photo courtesy Gray Light Aviation


The aircraft is finished in a white/blue colour scheme and shows the underwing Dept registration 89-XT and radio callsign F-JLBL in the cockpit. 

The aircraft is likely to be from production batch 030-13.... or 030-14....