22.6.2012
It was made in 1978 and sold to Romania, where it flew in basic training, where it was aquired in the nineties by a syndicate of  three Swiss men,  who ran it until 2008, when it was bought by a group of enthusiasts assoctiated in a club Aeroclub Loop & Roll, which owns and operates  this Zlin today. The aircraft differs from others, with an installed muffler, which is required for noisier aircraft in Switzerland. Since the muffler does not decrease engine power too much, nor does it affect the aerodynamics, the Czech operator decided to leave it installed. OK-RKR...

SN 0612, was made in 1960 in a series of aircrafts for the Czechoslovak Air Force. These machines are much different from standard coaches. In addition to special military equipment, it was mainly their treatment for night flights. Aircraft for ten years served to train pilots in the Military University of Kosice. After military service he was assigned to another service within the organization Svazarm that prepared the cadres to serve in the army. In 2011 passed demanding an overhaul of the Zlin-Avion, at which he was placed in its original state in which it flew in the Czechoslovak Air...

SN 0609 was built in 1960 for CSLA, which initially used it, along with other airplanes of the same series, under the name C-305 for training foreign pilots. Soon,  after there was no use for them, they were transferred to the military aeroclubs and then to Svazarm. Same fate befell SN 0609, which initially flew under the military designation of the Aero Club of Aeronautical Repair Corporation Kbely since 1972, with the civil registration OK-OTD. It went through several airports, but mostly lived on Točná, and since 1978, after conversion to Z-326M in Kladnom as towing. After the aforementioned rebuildin...

SN 0909, was built in 1966 as  Z-326. First flight took place on 06.06.66, Vlastimil Berg piloting, and then the aircraft was sold to France, where it flew until 1977 under the registration mark F-BNMX. It was then stored until it was bought in the early 90′s  , and brought into the Republic by Mr. Milan Jančář from the company Zlin-Avion, which performed an overhaul that changed it into the Z-526M (a M-137A engine and  V-503A propeller were installed). It was then sold to Slovakia in Holíč Aero Club, where it flew until 2006 as OM-VOR. After a while, it...

Zlin Z-526F OK-IZZ, SN 1162, first registered on 28 October 1971 in Italy under the brand name I-VIZZ, owned by Caproni Vizzola Construzioni Aeronautiche SpA, was bough in 1977 by the Aeroclub di Milano and was transferred to the Lindbergh Flying School in 1981. In 1991 Mr. Ricardo Marcassa became a private owner and operated them, as he said “Very Gently”, until 2008 when it was in completely unflyable condition with minor defects. Than It was bought by Mrs. Monika Bezděková and later by VERTEGO Company Ltd. Due to defects, problems at issue export certificates and the overall condition of...