A rare Hungarian plane flies again

According to turizmusonline.hu, the Goldtimer Foundation renovated the replica of the historic double-topped Gerle 12 aeroplane, which was originally made in 1932 and was flying above the Budaörs airport on Friday (August 26).

In 1932, 10 Gerle aeroplanes with radial engines were made, but after several modifications they were eventually removed from service in 1940 and none of them survived the time. Later, with a few modifications but based on the safely-kept blueprints of Antal Bánhidi, the designer of the plane, it was built up again in 1991, however, this “new” model also got scrapped after an unfortunate take off.

Since then it was part of the aviation history exhibition of the Hungarian Transport Museum, until 2012, when the Goldtimer Foundation made the decision to renovate the “new” Gerle and to rebuild it to match the original 1930-made version. Though, this time instead of a radial a line engine was used because of financial reasons.

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