OK-DBD Ilyushin
IL-12B
(c/n 93013515)
Some 3,000 examples of the IL-12
were built from 1946 to 1953. The type was also license built
by Avia in Czechoslovakia. CSA
introduced them in 1948 as DC-3 replacements and they were
operated from Prague to the major capitals of
Europe. This one is seen at London Airport in the
late
1940s. It was seconded, for a while, to LOT in Poland as
SP-LHF.