Museum Fire....

[cvairwerks]

The museum at Tocna Airfield, just outside Prague, CZ., suffered a major fire this morning. Fortunately, it appears that all the aircraft were saved, with little of no damage. I had to sigh with some relief. as the L-10A that Bata owns, was saved. I put in several hundred hours and a lot of right seat time in her when she was owned by my flight surgeon. I started to bring her up out of semi-abandonment storage way back in 1984 or so, and my good friend Matt Wright got interested in her too and completed a good flying restoration over the next 5 years or so. The aircraft was originally built for Bata in 1937, ended up in the RAF and RCAF for the war. She spend some time as an airliner and my doc bought her in the 70's as an interesting warbird/persoanl transport.

 

[Crimea_River]

Good to hear that much of the valuable stuff seems to have survived.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Good news

 

[FowellBox]

Very pleased to here that no serious damage occurred

 

[Airframes]

Shame about the fire, and the obvious effects, but great to know the aircraft are OK.

 

[vikingBerserker]

That's great news!

 

[GrauGeist]

Good news on the safety of the aircraft!

 

[cvairwerks]

Forgot to add the link to the story and some video.

Požár zachvátil letiště Točná. Vzácná Electra zachráněna - Novinky.cz

 

[Gnomey]

Glad to hear there's not too much damage.

 

[Zipper730]

That's a relief: I hope nobody died in the fire.