Thirty-five years after the Soviet military left the Czech Republic's Milovice Air Base, armored hangars that once held MiG warplanes now shelter American-made Cessna microlight aircraft.

After the war, the company opted to manufacture a version of the Messerschmitt fighter for the Czech air force. The Daimler-Benz DB 605 V-12 engine, which had propelled the Bf 109, was no longer ...

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