The Soko 522 was a two-seater Yugoslav military training and light attack aircraft produced in the 1950s by

SOKO Soko ( sh-Cyrl, Соко) was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer based in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company was responsible for the production of many military aircraft for the Yugoslav Air Force. SOKO was created in 1950 by the ...

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History

The ''Soko 522'' was designed by Yugoslav engineers Šostarić, Marjanović and Čurčić at the Ikarus Aircraft Factory in

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. The first prototype flew in February 1955. After the initial success of the new aircraft, production was transferred to the Soko aircraft factory in

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. Production lasted until 1961 and totalled 110 units. It 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

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Operators

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Yugoslav Air Force The Air Force and Air Defence ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздушна одбрана, Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazdušna odbrana ; abbr. sh-Cyrl-Latn, label=none, separator=/, РВ и ПВ� ...

** 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) **

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(1961–1966) **

464th Light Combat Aviation Squadron The 464th Light Combat Aviation Squadron (''Serbo-Croatian: 464. eskadrila lake borbene avijacije / 464. ескадрила лаке борбене авијације'') was an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force formed in April 1961 at Titogr ...

(1961–1966) **

465th Light Combat Aviation Squadron The 465th Light Combat Aviation Squadron ('' Serbo-Croatian: 465. eskadrila lake borbene avijacije / 465. ескадрила лаке борбене авијације'') was an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force formed in April 1961 at Mosta ...

(1961–1966)

Surviving aircraft

;France * 60168 – Soko 522 airworthy. ;Serbia * 60132 – Soko 522 on static display at the Museum of Aviation in

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. * 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. ;Bosnia and Herzegovina * 60143 – Soko 522 on static display at Mostar Airport in Mostar, Herzegovina-Neretva. ;Slovenia * Soko 522 on static display at the

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. ;United States * Soko 522 owned by John Magoffin in

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. It was damaged in a wheels up landing.

Specifications (Soko 522)

References

Notes

Bibliography

* 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. *Yugoslavian Air Force and Air Defence, group of authors, VINC, Belgrade, 1989. {{Ikarus aircraft 522 Ikarus aircraft 1950s Yugoslav military trainer aircraft Low-wing aircraft Single-engined tractor aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1955