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Summary: Avia B 534 aircraft Airplane blueprint for the Avia, B, 534 ... Aviation history and aircraft blueprints/plans. Avia B-534 was Czech-built fighter. German forces captured about 350 planes (including Bk-534). There were concentrated at the airfields of Merseburg, Erding near Munich and several others, whence they were distributed to Luftwaffe units and offered to the satellite states. Luftwaffe organized a conversion course (so-called Avia Lehrgang) in Herzogenaurach. The ex-Czechoslovak fighters were used mainly as training machines with A/B Schulen and the Jagdfliegerschulen both on German and occupied soil. Some of the aircraft were used for special purposes especially a group of B-534 playing the Polish PZL-11c fighters in the "Kampfgeschwader Lützow" propaganda film.
Both the 3./JG 70 and 3./JG 71 based in Friedrichshafen were converted to Avias for night fighting use between July 1939 and the beginning of 1940, when they were reequipped with Messerschmitt Bf 109's.
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