Soko 522#Aircraft on display
{{Short description|1950s Yugoslavian trainer/light attack aircraft}}
{{Infobox aircraft
| name = Soko 522
| image = Soko 522 01.jpg
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| type = Training and light attack aircraft
| manufacturer = SOKO
| designer = Šostarić, Marjanović and Čurčić
| first_flight = February 1955
| introduction = 1955
| retired = 1978
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| primary_user = Yugoslav Air Force
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The Soko 522 was a two-seater Yugoslav military training and light attack aircraft produced in the 1950s by SOKO in Yugoslavia.
History
The Soko 522 was designed by Yugoslav engineers Šostarić, Marjanović and Čurčić at the Ikarus Aircraft Factory in Zemun. The first prototype flew in February 1955. After the initial success of the new aircraft, production was transferred to the Soko aircraft factory in Mostar. Production lasted until 1961 and totalled 110 units. The Soko 522 was used as the primary trainer aircraft for the Yugoslav air force until it was retired in 1978.
It gained some fame for its role in war movies filmed in Yugoslavia during the 1960s and 1970s, where it was used to portray the Fw 190 German fighter. Some of its prominent movie roles were in the Yugoslav Oscar candidate Battle of Neretva and Kelly's Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood.
Operators
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- Yugoslav Air Force
- 460th Light Combat Aviation Squadron (1961–1967)
- 461st Light Combat Aviation Squadron (1961–1968, 1973–1977)
- 462nd Light Combat Aviation Squadron (1961–1968, 1973–1977)
- 463rd Light Combat Aviation Squadron (1961–1966)
- 464th Light Combat Aviation Squadron (1961–1966)
- 465th Light Combat Aviation Squadron (1961–1966)
Surviving aircraft
File:522uMuzejuJvBeogradSlika2.jpg
;France
- 60168 – Soko 522 airworthy.{{cite web |title=Soko 522 - Untitled |url=http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled/Soko-522/1067894 |website=Airliners.net |access-date=15 November 2022 |date=2006}}{{Better source needed|date=November 2022}}
;Serbia
- 60132 – Soko 522 on static display at the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade.{{cite web |title=AviationMuseum.eu |url=http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/World/Europe/Serbia/Belgrade/Muzej_Ratnog_Vazduhoplovstva.htm |website=Muzej Yugoslovenskog Ratnog Vazduhoplovstva |access-date=15 November 2022}}
- 60157 – Soko 522 on static display at the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade.
- 60204 – Soko 522 on static display at the Museum of Aviation in Belgrade.
- ????? Soko 522 on static display in park at Tovariševo
;Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 60143 – Soko 522 on static display at Mostar Airport in Mostar, Herzegovina-Neretva.{{cite web |title=Airframe Dossier - SOKO 522, s/n 60143 YAF |url=http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=101228 |website=Aerial Visuals |access-date=15 November 2022}}
;Slovenia
- Soko 522 on static display at the Pivka Park of Military History in Pivka.{{cite web |title=Paviljon C |url=http://www.parkvojaskezgodovine.si/razstave/paviljon-c |website=Park Vojaške Zgodovine Pivka |access-date=15 November 2022 |language=Slovenian}}
;United States
- Soko 522 owned by John Magoffin in Tucson, Arizona.{{cite web |title=Airframe Dossier - SOKO 522, c/n U-210, c/r N210TU |url=http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=231325 |website=Aerial Visuals |access-date=15 November 2022}} It was damaged in a wheels up landing.{{cite web |title=Member's Aircraft |url=http://www.dixiewing.org/aircraft/other/index.htm |website=Dixie Wing |access-date=15 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030503114059/http://www.dixiewing.org/aircraft/other/index.htm |archive-date=3 May 2003}}
Specifications (Soko 522)
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|hardpoint other=*fotocamera KFM-C-45 1000 shoots
|avionics=radio AN-ARC-3, VKT 100-156 MHz range 45 km at 1000 ft, 200 km at 10,000 ft
radiocompass AN-ARN-6 100-1750 kHz or AD-722
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See also
References
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=Notes=
{{Reflist}}
=Bibliography=
{{Refbegin}}
- Taylor, John W. R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1961–62. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1961.
- Illustrated history of aviation ’’Modern Ikars“, IRO Vuk Karadzic&Sluzbeni list SFRJ, Belgrade, 1989. {{ISBN|86-307-0088-2}}
- Yugoslavian Air Force and Air Defence, group of authors, VINC, Belgrade, 1989.
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{{Ikarus aircraft}}
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