Showing posts with label 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2025. Show all posts

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.  

 

 

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 

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.   

  

 

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 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

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).  






 



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.

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.