Aero L-29 Delphin - Erickson Aircraft Collection - Madras, OR
N 44° 40.245 W 121° 08.956
10T E 646699 N 4948041
This post-WWII vintage aircraft was produced in Czechoslovakia and is housed at the Erickson Aircraft Collection located at the Madras Airport.
Waymark Code: WMPCDF
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 08/08/2015
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Erickson Aircraft Collection relocated approximately 20 aircraft to the Madras Airport in 2014. This collection of mostly WWII vintage planes were previously housed in a military hanger at the Tillamook Air Museum (NW coastal town in Oregon).
The following verbiage is taken from the Erickson Aircraft Collection website to describe its history:
Aero L-29 Delphin
NARRATIVE
The L-29 Delphin was Chosen as the standard trainer for all Iron Curtain air forces during the 1960s. Once qualified in the L-29, pilots would progress into the MiG-15 and MiG-21. Manufactured by the Aero Vodochody National Corporation in Czechoslovakia between 1961 and 1964, about 3,600 were built, most going to the Soviet Union. The Collection's airworthy Delphin is one of several brought to the United States from Indonesia in 1988.
I wasn't able to locate an inventory page for this plane but was able to locate the serial number from a book titled Oregon Aircraft Survivors 2003.
Each aircraft contains its own interpretive display and I've included a picture of it which contains additional info on this aircraft.
This collection is definitely worth the visit for any aircraft enthusiast.