Maszovlet

Ferihegy International Airport (1950–1954) Maszovlet (short for Magyar–Szovjet Polgári Légiforgalmi Részvénytársaság, "Hungarian-Soviet Civil Air Transport Joint Stock Company") was a Hungarian airline founded on March 29, 1946.

Maszovlet was founded after the war as the national airline of the newly Communist state, with technical assistance from the Soviet Union.

In the beginning its fleet consisted of five 21-seat Lisunov Li-2 passenger aircraft (a licensed Soviet version of Douglas DC-3) and five 3-seat Po-2 plane which carried air mail.

[2] From 1947 the capital was connected by regular flights to Miskolc and Pécs, and during the next years Békéscsaba, Kaposvár, Nagykanizsa, Nyíregyháza and Zalaegerszeg also joined the list of destinations.

By the summer of 1954 the airline served 12 domestic airports and started services on the Warsaw, East Berlin and Bucharest routes.

Planes at Budaörs Airport
A Lisunov Li-2 (HA-LID) operated by Maszovlet at Budaörs in 1946