OK-DAJ
Aero 145
Baujahr / Built in:

1959

Pilot oder Besitzer / Pilot or owner:

Ondrej Rycl

Stationiert in / Stationed in:

Prague,

Motor / Engine:

2 × Walter M 332-III air-cooled 4-cylinder inline engine
Leistung / Performance:

2x 140hp
Abmessungen / Measurement:



Max. Abfluggewicht / Max. takeoff weight:

960 kg (2,116 lb) Loaded weight: 1,500 kg (3,306 lb) Max. takeoff weight: 1,600 kg (3,527 lb)

Weitere Informationen / More information

The Aero 145 was a twin piston-engined civil utility aircraft produced in Czechoslovakia after World War II. The development began 1946 and was accomplished by the technical designers Jiři Bouzek, Ondřej Němec and František Vik. The design bears a superficial resemblance, viewed nose-on, to the German Siebel type Si-204.In August 1949 Jan Anderle won Norton Griffiths Race in Great Britain (registration OK-DCL). They also set several international records. As a result, apart from Eastern Bloc countries, the plane was also bought by Italy and Switzerland. On 10-11 August 1958 an Italian Ae-45 flew 3000 kilometers from South America to Dakar across southern Atlantic. The aircraft flew first Czechoslovak aircraft Atlantic Ocean from Zlín to Buenos Aires with a stop at the island of Fernando de Norronha.