Best of the pre-war rest: Czechoslovakians, Poles, Romanians or Yugoslavs?

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These four Central/Eastern European fighters first fly in 1938/39: Avia B-135, PZL.50 Jastrząb, IAR 80, Rogožarski IK-3. Which is the best?


As an aside, is the second aircraft below a dual seat IK-3?

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If we want to include the Hungarians, there's the MÁVAG Héja that first flies in 1940.
 
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By the oil cooler, and the horizontal tail, and the fabric outer part of the fuselage, definitely a Yak, I would say a local conversion of the Yak-9.
Admittedly, the rest of the planes in the picture also look like Yaks, but they are first version of the post-war S-49A. The plane that is about to take off is also a two-seater Yak-9
 
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Actually not Rogožarski IK-3 but these are the Ikarus S-49A as stated above , the mix of the American, Russian and Spanish parts. And indeed, the two-seater is the UJak-9. During 1953, the "Soko" factory from Mostar undertook the task of converting a certain number of Jak-9 single-seat fighter planes into a two-seat UJak-9 variant intended for flight training. I would say the training kite is quite similar to the Yak9V. Just the radio mast is attached at the different location.

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the pic source: the net.
 

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