Avia is a Czech aircraft manufacturer, notably for producing biplane fighters, but now focuses as an automotive company producing trucks.
1919: Company founded by Pavel Beneš, Miroslav Hajn, Jaroslav František Koch and Václav Malý
1928: Became part of Akciová společnost, dříve Škodovy závody
The factory became Czechoslovakia's biggest aircraft producer during the 1930s and moved to Letňany near Prague
Avia produced aircraft for the German Luftwaffe during WWII, but was nationalised soon after becoming involved in the automotive industry.
1963: aircraft manufacture ceased to focus on truck production, but continued to make aircraft engines and then propellers from 1988.
1992: The company was split into propeller and truck sections, both still using the Avia brand.
In order of model number
BH-1 (1920) Single engine monoplane 2-seat touring (1 built)
BH-2 (1921) Single engine monoplane single-seat touring (1 built)
First Flight: 1921
Fighter development of BH-2
BH-4 (1922) Development of BH-3 with larger engine (1 built)
BH-5 (1923) Single engine monoplane 2 seat touring (1 built)
BH-6 (1923) Single engine single seat biplane fighter (1 built)
BH-7 (1923) Single engine single seat parasol wing fighter / racer (2 built)
BH-8 (1923) Development of BH-6 (1 built)
BH-9 (1923) Development of BH-5
BH-10 (1924) Development of BH-9 single seat sports
First Flight:1923
Development of BH-9, 2-seat sport aircraft
BH-12 (1924) Development of BH-9 with foldable wings
BH-16 (1924) light single engine single seat monoplane tourer
BH-17 (1924) Single engine single seat biplane fighter
BH-19 (1924) Development of BH-3 (2 built)
BH-20 (1924) Single engine 2-seat training
First Flight: 1925
single-seat fighter / racing
BH-22 (1924) Single engine 2 seat trainer developed from BH-21
BH-23 (1926) Night-fighter development of BH-21 and BH-22 (2 built)
BH-25 (1926) Single engine 7 seat biplane transport
BH-26 (1927) Single engine 2 seat biplane reconnaissance
BH-28 (1927) Single engine 2 seat biplane reconnaissance (1 built)
BH-29 (1927) Single engine 2 seat biplane trainer
First Flight: 1927
single-seat fighter development of BH-21
BH-39/F.39 (1929) Czech bomber variant of Fokker F.IX, 3-piston engine high-wing monoplane
BH-133 Development of BH-33 powered by Pratt & Whitney Hornet radial engine
B-34 (1932) Single engine single seat biplane fighter
B-234 (1932) Single engine single seat biplane fighter (prototype only)
First Flight:1933
single-seat fighter
B-51 (1933) 3-engine 6 passenger transport
First Flight: 1934
aerobatic
B-71 (1934) Czechoslovak version of Soviet Tupolev SB 2M-100A twin engine bomber
B-156 (1934) Single engine 6 passenger transport (prototype only)
B-57 (1935) 3 engined 14 passenger transport
B-35 (1938) Single engine fighter
B-58 (1938) Twin-engined medium bomber developed into B-158
B-158 (1938) Twin engined light bomber (prototype only)
B-135 (1939) Production version of B-35 with metal wing
VR-1 (1945) Czechoslovak postwar production of the German Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache helicopter
First Flight:1946
Czechoslovak production version of the Me 262 single or 2-seat fighter
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 variant assembled postwar in Czechoslovakia (Avia factory designation was C.10)
First Flight:1947
Main production variant powered by Junkers Jumo 211F engine (Avia factory designation was C.210)
A re-built 2-seat training variant of the S-199
First Flight:1950
Czechoslovak version of the Ilyushin Il-14
First Flight:1951
Czechoslovak production version of the Ilyushin Il-10
B-228 Czechoslovak version of the Ilyushin Il-28
S-105 Czechoslovak version of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19S