AP 118 · No. 10 Section II · Aircraft 1960

Aircraft hub · 1960 · Cold War

PZL TS-11 Iskra

Poland’s jet trainer, outsourcing nothing to Moscow out of principle. The gazetteer currently lists it at 2 UK museums.

1960
First flight
424
Built
478 mph
Top speed
2
Museums

Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.

On charge

Where to see the PZL TS-11 Iskra in the UK

The gazetteer records 2 PZL TS-11 Iskra airframes (including cockpit sections and replicas where noted) across 2 UK collections, in 2 regions: Midlands & Lincolnshire, South East England.

MuseumCityRegionAirframes recorded
Midland Air MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 Coventry Midlands & Lincolnshire PZL TS-11 Iskra 1H0408
RAF Manston History MuseumChecked 2026-10-08 Ramsgate South East England PZL TS-11 Iskra G-BXVZ

3D model

The TS-11 Iskra bis A in 3D

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as c/n 1H0408, the Midland Air Museum’s PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra bis A, flown by the Polish Air Force as ‘408’, brought to Britain by the Old Flying Machine Company in 1996 and on loan to the museum at Coventry since 2004, where it is displayed as ‘1706’: Poland’s two-seat jet trainer, 33 ft in span, with one turbojet fed by intakes in the wing roots and exhausting beneath a slender tail boom, a straight mid-set wing with tip pods, tandem cockpits under a long canopy and the tailplane carried part-way up the fin, shown standing level on its tricycle undercarriage: gloss white with a sky-blue nose decking, spine and boom top, a blue fin with a white rudder, a red ‘1706’ beneath the front cockpit, a shark mouth on the nose, squadron badges on both sides of the nose, Polish red and white checkerboards on the fin and the boom, and red and white blanks in the intakes, as displayed (the nose badges are simplified, and no photograph shows the wing surfaces, so no wing markings are painted). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 215 models · download .glb (1.1 MB) · Plate 176 in The Hangar

Computed from the survey

Collection context

Types you’ll see alongside

Avro Vulcan, Colomban Cri-Cri & the homebuilt shelf, English Electric Canberra, English Electric Lightning, Europa & the kit-plane age.

Where the type is thickest

Midlands & Lincolnshire has 1 collection recording the type.

Type notes

The PZL TS-11 Iskra in brief

TypePZL TS-11 Iskra
UK museums holding one2
Airframes recorded in this survey2

Serials are the gazetteer's survey snapshot of what each collection records on charge — restorations move between workshops and reserve hangars, so check the museum page for opening times and current display status before travelling. Every type across 119 museums is indexed in the Compendium.

Aircraft questions

Frequently asked

How many PZL TS-11 Iskra airframes are left in the UK?

The Aviation Gazetteer records 2 PZL TS-11 Iskra airframes in UK collections.

Which museum has the most PZL TS-11 Iskra airframes?

Midland Air Museum has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.