Types you’ll see alongside
Avro Vulcan, Colomban Cri-Cri & the homebuilt shelf, English Electric Canberra, English Electric Lightning, Europa & the kit-plane age.
Aircraft hub · 1960 · Cold War
Poland’s jet trainer, outsourcing nothing to Moscow out of principle. The gazetteer currently lists it at 2 UK museums.
Last verified 2026-10-11 against the gazetteer Compendium. Airframes move — confirm on museum pages before travel.
On charge
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.
| Museum | City | Region | Airframes 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
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
Avro Vulcan, Colomban Cri-Cri & the homebuilt shelf, English Electric Canberra, English Electric Lightning, Europa & the kit-plane age.
Midlands & Lincolnshire has 1 collection recording the type.
Type notes
| Type | PZL TS-11 Iskra |
|---|---|
| UK museums holding one | 2 |
| Airframes recorded in this survey | 2 |
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
The Aviation Gazetteer records 2 PZL TS-11 Iskra airframes in UK collections.
Midland Air Museum has the most in this survey, with 1 recorded airframe.