Bialo-Czerwone Iskry ("White-and-Red Sparks") was an aerobatic demonstration team of the

Polish Air Forces The Polish Air Force ( pl, Siły Powietrzne, , Air Forces) is the aerial warfare branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as ''Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej'' (). In 2014 it consisted of roughly 16,425 mil ...

. Originally formed in 1969 at the 60 Training Wing in

Radom Radom is a city in east-central Poland, located approximately south of the capital, Warsaw. It is situated on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the seat of a separate Radom Voivodeship (1975� ...

under the name Rombik, the team flew four

TS-11 Iskra The PZL TS-11 ''Iskra'' ( en, Spark) is a Polish jet trainer, developed and manufactured by aircraft company PZL-Mielec. It was used by the air forces of Poland and India. It is notable as being the first domestically developed jet aircraft to be ...

s. The team grew to nine pilots between 1993 and 1998 and was rebased to the 1 Air Training Centre in

Dęblin Dęblin is a town at the confluence of Vistula and Wieprz rivers, in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. Dęblin is the part of the agglomeration with adjacent towns of Ryki and Puławy, which altogether has over 100 000 inhabitants. The population o ...

. The team was the last user of the TS-11 Iskra, and flew their final display in August 2021 before disbanding.

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*http://www.bialoczerwoneiskry.eu/ *https://web.archive.org/web/20050408062923/http://www.czasopismawlop.mil.pl/zespoly/iskryeng.htm *https://www.europeanairshows.co.uk/news/white-and-red-sparks-final-display Military units and formations established in 1969 Military units and formations of the Polish Air Force Aerobatic teams {{PolishAirForce-stub

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