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Light trainer /touring aircraft
Zlín Z 43 is a light trainer /touring aircraft originating in Czechoslovakia. It was built by Moravan Otrokovice.
Light trainer /touring aircraft
Czechoslovakia
Moravan Otrokovice
In production (Z143 LSi model, 2011)
114 (Z 43) 2 (Prototypes) 63+ (Z 143)
1972-1977
10 December 1968
Zlín Z 42
1
3 passengers
7.75 m (25 ft 5 in)
9.76 m (32 ft 0 in)
2.91 m (9 ft 7 in)
14.50 m 2 (156.1 sq ft)
730 kg (1,609 lb)
1,350 kg (2,976 lb)
130 L (34 US gal; 29 imp gal) normal, provision for additional 110 L (29 US gal; 24 imp gal) tanks in wingtips
1 × Avia M 337 A inverted six-cylinder air-cooled inline engine, 160 kW (210 hp)
235 km/h (146 mph, 127 kn) at sea level
210 km/h (130 mph, 110 kn)
103 km/h (64 mph, 56 kn) (flaps down)
273 km/h (170 mph, 147 kn)
610 km (380 mi, 330 nmi) (standard fuel), 1,150 km (710 mi; 620 nmi) (with wingtip tanks)
3,800 m (12,500 ft)
3.5 m/s (690 ft/min)
700 m (2,300 ft)
590 m (1,940 ft)
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Zlín Z 43 equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Reported count for Zlín Z 43 · 143. Country-wide list; no individual service specified. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 1. Origin: Czechoslovakia. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2025), not the article revision. 2025 cited publication year. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.