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Old 14th Oct 2007, 12:31
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CSA gives A/C town names all complete with heraldry sticker at the front door and "baptism" ceremony with the mayor involved. A single exception was the "Skyrider" named in the honour of Czech-Slovak Battle of Britain hero servicemen in the presence of the late Frantisek Fajtl, Grand-Croix Légion d'Honneur, DFC, the first ever non-British citizen to command a RAF squadron (122 - City of Bombay).

Strangely enough, the largest aircraft to bear a Czech town name is a KLM 777 PH-BQL "Litomyšl Castle" and the latest batch of CSA A320 bear the names of moutain ranges that confine the Czech Republic plateau.
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