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in 1923. It was based on the firm's experience with the BH-1 and shared that aircraft's basic design: a low-wing, braced

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. As a result of its L-BOSA registration, all slow flying Avia monoplanes of the BH-5 lineage (BH-5 through to BH-12) were nicknamed ''Boska''. The BH-5 was flown competitively by Zdeněk Lhota at the

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Touring Aircraft Contest in

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in 1923, and won both the overall prize for the event and the King of Belgium Prize. The same year, it won the first prize in its class in the Czechoslovak President of the Republic Competition. On 1 June 2007, a replica (OK-BOS) built by Marcel Sezemský and members of Historická letka Republiky československé, completed its first flight from

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in the

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. The engine used is an original 1923

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Specifications

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * * Němeček, V. (1968). ''Československá letadla''. Praha: Naše Vojsko.
Historická Letka Republiky Československé website
(pdf document)
The 2007 test flight reportage (in Czech)
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