inž. P. Beneš a inž. J. Mráz, továrna na letadla was a Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s. It was established at Choceň

Chocen

Choceň is a town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has c. 9,100 inhabitants.First written document mentions this place in 1227. In 1562 building of large Choceň Castle started....

 by Pavel Beneš

Pavel Beneš

Pavel Beneš was a chief designer at ČKD-Praga, one of the largest engineering companies in the former Czechoslovakia and today's Czech Republic....

 and Jaroslav Mráz on 1 Apr 1935 and manufactured a series of light aircraft of their own design until the Nazi-German occupation. In the rurn of 1939/40, the company was renamed Ing. J. Mráz, továrna na letadla - Ing. J. Mráz, Flugzeugfabrik. During the war, the factory was used to produce Fieseler Fi 156 "Storch"

Fieseler Fi 156

The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch was a small German liaison aircraft built by Fieseler before and during World War II, and production continued in other countries into the 1950s for the private market...

s and training gliders for the Nazi-German Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1935 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....

. Following the war, the company was reconstituted as Ing. J. Mráz, továrna na letadla, národní správa.

• Be-50 Beta-Minor  (trainer, 1935, serie)
• Be-51  (1937, Serie)
• Be-52 Beta-Major  (1936)
• Beneš-Mráz Be-53
• Be-56  (1936)
• Be-60 Bestiola  (1935, Serie)
• Be-150 Beta-Junior (1936, Serie)
• Be-156 (1935)
• Be-250 Beta Major (1936, Serie)
• Be-251 (1938)
• Be-252 Beta Scolar
  Beneš-Mráz Beta-Scolar
  -References:* Němeček, V. . Československá letadla. Praha: Naše Vojsko....
  
   ( 1937)
• Be-352(1939, Projekt)
• Be-501
• Be-502
• Be-550 Bibi
  Beneš-Mráz Bibi
  -See also:...
  
    (1936, Serie)
• Be-555 Super Bibi (1938, Serie)
• Mráz K-65 Čáp Fieseler Fi156 copy
• Mráz M-2 Skaut
  Mráz M-2 Skaut
  - References :* Němeček, Václav: "M-2". Czechoslovak airplanes 2 , Prague, Neše vojsko, 1984-Related content:...
  
  (1948)

External links

• http://www.histaviation.com/Czech_aircraft.html
• http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_OK-.htm
• http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/forums/index.php?showforum=57
• http://www.mattfind.com/Benes-Mraz