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AirLony

Czech aircraft manufacturer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ18619782 ↗
Source-derived summary

AirLony is a Czech aircraft manufacturer based in Štětí. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of complete ultralight aircraft and aircraft kits for amateur construction.

The company's sole current product is the AirLony Skylane UL, which is a two-seat ultralight replica of the four seat Cessna 182.

Editorial summary

“AirLony” enters the record as czech aircraft manufacturer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what AirLony, Czech and aircraft can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 49-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. Its strongest next move is a source search built around AirLony, Czech and aircraft.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“AirLony” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, AirLony, Czech and aircraft provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18619782. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow AirLony primary sources, AirLony archive and AirLony research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “AirLony” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.