Jozef Aleksandrovich Levanevsky ( Polish: Józef Lewoniewski ) (1899, St. Petersburg , Russian Empire - September 11, 1933, near the city of Yadrin , Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Gorky Territory , RSFSR , USSR ) - Polish aviator.
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Biography
Born in Russia in a family of Poles. In May 1919 he returned to independent Poland and served in the Polish army in the cavalry during the Polish-Soviet War. In 1923 he signed up as a volunteer in the Air Force and in 1924 he graduated from an aviation school in the city of Bydgoszcz . He served as a fighter pilot with the rank of captain.
Actively participated in sports flights. August 15, 1931 flew to the PWS-52 . Since March 1933, he worked at the Aviation Technical Research Institute in Warsaw as a test pilot.
On September 11, 1933, with Cheslav Filipovich, he tried to break the world record of a direct flight distance for tourist aircraft of category I on a specially converted Polish aircraft PZL-19 . The plane crashed near the city of Yadrin, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . Filipovich was wounded, Levanevsky died. He was buried in the military cemetery Povonzki ( Polish. Powązki ) in Warsaw.
See also
Levanevsky, Sigismund Alexandrovich