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Vintage Aero Vzlet Take Off Aircraft Factories Aviation Company Logo Pin Badge
Vintage Aero Vzlet Take Off Aircraft Factories Aviation Company Logo Pin Badge
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A very pretty gold coloured metal pin badge advertising Aero, but at this time they had started making bus chassis and were just named Central Czechoslovak Factories or Středočeské strojírny. It is my contention that the aircraft section of the company became VZLET (or Take-Off) which dates the pin badge to the dates around 1955 - 1965. The badge face is 1.5cm in diameter and has a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.
It features the unmistakable Aero bird logo.
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Aero were formed in 1919 shortly after the territory known as Czechoslovakia was created in the aftermath of World War 1.
During German occupation the company produced the Focke-Wulf Fw 189 and Siebel Si 204 and under Soviet license, the Mig-21.
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Around this time they started development of the Aero-L29 Delfin a Czech designed and built jet trainer and from this came the 1970's designed L-39 Albatros which went on to be, arguably, the most successful jet trainer in history and still being manufactured 40 years later in the form of the L-159.
