Let L-200 Morava expedition to the North Pole
Let L-200 Morava · Aviation expedition
From Vodochody airport to Vodochody airport
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Occurrence
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
Let L-200 Morava
- Aircraft type
- Let L-200
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- OK-OFI
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Vodochody airportTo Vodochody airport
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The Let L-200 Morava expedition to the North Pole was a polar aviation expedition that took place in April 2008 in a small vintage Let L-200A Morava aircraft. The organisers and participants of the expedition were two Czech pilots, Petr Bold and Richard Santus. The expedition was timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Air Force, as well as the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Let L-200 Morava aircraft.
The expedition began on 1 April 2008 with a departure from Vodochody Airport, near Prague. On 5 April at 19:05 Central European Time the aircraft successfully reached the North Pole, and on 9 April the expedition was successfully completed with the return to Vodochody. During the expedition the aircraft spent over 45 hours in flight, covering a total distance of over 9,500 kilometres and consuming over 2,500 litres of aviation gasoline.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article “Експедиція Let L-200 Morava на Північний полюс” (revision 43904058, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Ukrainian Wikipedia article: Експедиція Let L-200 Morava на Північний полюс
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 43904058 · 2024-11-15 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131196569
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- uk Wikipedia article "Експедиція Let L-200 Morava на Північний полюс" (page 5391470, revision 43904058), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): Two pilots organised and flew their own vintage light aircraft on a polar expedition: private flying, which is general aviation. The article: "The organisers and participants of the expedition were two Czech pilots, Petr Bold and Richard Santus."
- Fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Ukrainian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.