The Aero 45 was a twin piston-engined civil utility aircraft produced in Czechoslovakia after World War II.

Development began 1946 and was accomplished by the technical designers Jiři Bouzek, Ondřej Němec and František Vik.

In August 1949 Jan Anderle won the Norton Griffiths Race in Great Britain (Ae-45 registration OK-DCL).

On 10–11 August 1958 Dr. Pier Paolo Brielli flew an Italian Ae-45 3000 kilometers from South America to Dakar across the southern Atlantic (as the first Czechoslovak-built aircraft).

[2] This type was used in Czechoslovakia and was exported to the People's Republic of China, East Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union and Switzerland.