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Nevertheless, in July 1939, the PZL-46 production line in Mielec was ready and the production of the first elements began.
PZL plants also built, in small numbers, sports planes (PZL.5, PZL.19, PZL.26) and liaison planes (PZL Ł-2). Before 1939, PZL also developed designs and prototypes of fighter planes, including the PZL.50 Jastrząb and the PZL.44 Wicher passenger plane.
At the beginning of 1945, the office was moved to Łódź. On April 1, 1945, the Experimental Aviation Workshop was established in Łódź. Due to the greater possibilities of workshops in Łódź, the construction of Szpak-1 was abandoned in favor of a more mature structure.
On 22 July 1945 it was handed back to Polish control.
The first plane constructed in Mielec was a simple trainer PZL S-1, flown on 15 November 1945, of which only 1 unit was built (this was the second plane built in Poland after the war).
On May 14, 1946, Lieutenant Engineer Eugeniusz Stankiewicz made another flight on the S-1 aircraft.
The Russian army returned the plant to the Polish nation only in 1946.
The first was developed in 1947, the design of the training plane, which was named CSS-10, and was designed by Franciszek Misztal and Eng.
In December 1948, the prototype of the machine with the serial number 48-013 and registration marks SP-AKZ left the factory.
The first flight was made on December 18, 1948, and the pilots were Ludwik Lech and Kazimierz Tyrlik.
The production of the aircraft, under the designation CSS-13, was launched at PZL Mielec in 1948.
On September 2, 1949, the first CSS-13 serial machine was tested.
In 1949, at the Institute of Aviation, the aircraft was approved for mass production.
From 1950, the factory developed significantly and became the largest Polish aircraft producer.
After carrying out the necessary tests in 1952, it was approved for flight as a training aircraft.
Nine copies of the Szpak-4 T were later handed over to aeroclubs, except for the SP-AAG, which was decommissioned in 1955 and went to the Aviation Museum in Krakow.
In Poland, the first refrigerator was manufactured in Wrocław in 1956 and was called Mewa.
In 1959, WSK Mielec received the license documentation and the model aircraft No.
On February 5, 1960, the career of the most famous training aircraft of the second half of the 20th century, the TS-11 Iskra, began.
The most numerous plane built in Mielec was the licensed Soviet Antonov An-2 utility biplane, produced from 1960 in different variants.
On March 23, 1961, the first batch was handed over to recipients from the East.
In 1961, the production of ASz-62 IR engines with a capacity of 1 x 736 kW (1 x 1,000 HP) began under license at the WSK Kalisz plant.
1H 01-01 aircraft built in Mielec was performed on November 7, 1963.
On August 27, 1969, the pilot Michał Skowroński made the first flight on the series TS-11 Iskra bis B aircraft No.
In 1970, a batch of 10 was built and sent to the US for testing.
In 1971, Poland received an order from the Soviets to develop, build and produce the world's first agricultural aircraft with a turbojet drive.
XM-15 and was flew on May 27, 1973 by the test pilot, Ludwik Natkańca.
In 1973, serial production of the TS-11 Iskra bis D was launched.
By December 31, 1975, 8,300 units were produced, of which over 7,000 were transferred to the CCCP.
In 1975 it returned to a traditional name Wytwórnia Sprzętu Komunikacyjnego "PZL-Mielec" (WSK "PZL-Mielec"), in an honor of the PZL brand.
On August 23, 1976, the pilot Stanisław Wasil flew the PZL M-15-03 serial prototype No.
1ZP 01-02 registration SP-PBW was flew on August 27, 1976 by the pilot Andrzej Pamuła.
1ZP 01-03 registration SP-PBZ. On April 14, 1978, pilot Tadeusz Gołębiewski flew PZL M-18 Dromader No.
In 1981, the first serial TS-11 Iskra bis DF plane was tested.
Partly basing on the M-20 the factory developed a successful light trainer PZL M-26 Iskierka of 1988, however only seven were built.
In 1996, an agreement was signed with a strategic investor, PEZETEL, which recapitalized the company and prepared a "face lifting" of the existing products to attract customers.
Aviation business was carried on by Polskie Zakłady Lotnicze Sp. z o.o. (the new PZL, a Limited Liability Company) established on October 19, 1998.
Already in 1999, the Mielec Diesel Gaz company was established in the special economic zone of Euro Park Mielec from a part of the assets of Wytwórnia Motników and the funds from the capital of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.
The last 4 planes intended for Vietnam were built at WSK Mielec in January 2002.
However, the company was successfully bought in full as an operating enterprise by the states of Dorota and Andrzej Tyszkiewicz on September 1, 2004.
For several years, until 2005, the management board of Wytwórnia Motników reduced employment from approx.
The engine production was discontinued in 2006 and was not restarted due to non-compliance with European Union standards.
It was also pointed out that the Polish military agreed in December 2008 to purchase 12 unnecessary M-28B aircraft from the new factory owners, for a price two or three times higher than their real value and export price.
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