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.
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.
A recent new biz-jet registration in Poland is SP-IZU - Cessna 525 Citation Jet 1 with S/N 525-0396 - this Citation was built in 2000 and was registered in Poland on 21st February 2023 ( ex EC-MPN ) with Bartolini Air, based at Lodz ( EPLL )
On April 27th 2023 Bartolini Air posted the following about Citation SP-IZU - "The
third light jet in our commercial fleet - a Cessna Citation Jet 1 (reg.
SP-IZU) with a stunning, fully refurbished interior - is airborne in
its maiden flight as we speak! At the controls: Bartek Walas himself
(Captain and C525 Type Rating Instructor) and Marc Meuleman - a Bartolini Air
flight instructor in his first-ever commercial jet flight (beginning
his line training as FO). The aircraft is repositioning from Modlin
(EPMO) to Hamburg (EDDH) to pick up a passenger and take him to London Luton (EGGW)."
Photos courtesy Bartolini Air
A recent visit to Warsaw-Bemowo airfield found Cessna 175C Skylark SP-FYZ - the aircraft looks in excellent condition. This example was built in 1962, the 175 Skylark was only in production between 1958-1962.
SP-FYZ was registered in Poland in July 2001 having been imported from Sweden as SE-CXO. It was initially based at Suwalki. I saw FYZ at Lisie Katy in 2008 and at Bemowo in 2019 and 2020. The Skylark features a geared Continental GO-300C engine. Approx 2,100 Skylarks were built before Cessna ceased production.
One other Skylark in Poland is SP-KYM a Cessna 175B variant built in 1961.
LINK - More info about the Cessna 175 Skylark here
