Soko G-2 Galeb
The Seagull
“Yugoslavia's first jet, built in Mostar.”
Soko · military
Galeb means seagull, and the G-2 was the first jet aircraft designed and built in Yugoslavia. It is a straight-wing trainer with a Rolls-Royce Viper, tip tanks and a long tandem canopy, and it trained Yugoslav pilots for 40 years before going on to serve in the wars of the 1990s. Several reached the United States after the country broke up, where they fly as some of the rarest jets on the warbird circuit.
The Galeb's first flight in 1961 made Yugoslavia one of only a few countries outside the big powers to build its own jet aircraft from scratch.
Straight wing, tip tanks, and a long greenhouse canopy with the rear seat raised. Looks like an MB-326 at a glance; the Galeb's fin is more upright and the nose shorter.
One might be overhead right now.
Bogey turns the The Seagull from a dot in the sky into a card in your logbook.
