VQ-PAK  RWD-8                                            (c/n  178)

                               

                                The Aviron airline company was established in 1936 to train local Jewish pilots. Since its founders
                                came as immigrants from Poland, it is not usual, therefore, to note that at least six of its fleet were
                                from that nation's well established private aircraft industry.      The above shot, from the Kluger
                                Zoltan collection shows -PAK, in a kibbutz in the northern Jordan Valley, circa 1937, along with
                                another training aircraft operated, a RWD-13, SP-BFM which became VQ-PAM.        Oddly,
                                -PAK had originally been registered VQ-PAG but this was changed, for some reason to -PAK
                                in 1937.  Possibly the former had some unsuitable connotation in the local language?
                                Most of the RWD-13s were impressed into the fledgling Israeli Air Force in 1948, but -PAK
                                had been written off by then.