AviaB534_IV_Bulgaria_1942v1_RJaeger, 25 December 2011.

A squad of three Dogans (Hunting Falcons), Avia B-534 Type IV, serving with the 6th Fighter Regiment of the Bulgarian Air Force, circa 1942; individually camouflaged, serialed, and weathered. Includes  a 'marked no-number' version, and a blank.


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History:

When the Third Reich occupied Czechoslovakia, absorbing her Czech Lands as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, her air force ceased to exist. Bulgaria used the opportunity to acquire large numbers of relatively modern aircraft at a symbolic price. 

In the summer of 1939 the Bulgarian Air Force bought from the Wirschaftsgruppe Luftfahrtindustrie in Berlin, 78 of the B-534s of the 4th version. These were delivered by train to Karlovo and issued to the 2nd istrebitelen orlyak (2nd Fighter Air Regiment). Each of its four combat yatos (Squadrons) got 15 of the B-534s, the training yato receiving a dozen of them. These units were located at the Karlovo and Vrazhdebna (near Sofia) airfields.

The Kingdom of Bulgaria entered World War II on the 1 March 1941 as a German ally. Under a signed treaty, Bulgaria allowed the use of its territory as a staging point for the invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece, and some minor logistical support. 

2nd orlyak was sent to Bozuriste when the Serbians bombers made attacks on Kjustendil, west of Sofia, on 6 April 1941. 

In March 1942 the 6th Istrebitelen Orlyak (6th Fighter Air Regiment) received its B-534s, allotting them to the 612th yato, based at the Vrazhdebna airfield, and to the 622nd yato, based at the Bozhurishte airfield, near Sofia. 6th Istrebitelen Orlyak was a mixed unit equipped with Bf109s and B-534s.


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