To preserve the memory of the people and achievements of Polish agricultural aviation, a comprehensive exhibition has been prepared at the Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków, where outdoor stands display flying equipment and its agricultural apparatus alongside information panels about agricultural aviation. The exhibition is complemented by the nearby PZL M-20 Mewa liaison aircraft, used for forest patrol.
The difficult conditions and pace of work caused accidents in which equipment was damaged and people even lost their lives. Approximately 70 fatalities were recorded during service operations at home and abroad. They are commemorated on the Memorial Wall at the MLP (eastern end of the taxiway). A plaque placed there, dedicated to victims of aviation accidents, bears the names, years and countries in which agricultural aviators perished. The ceremonial opening of the exhibition and unveiling of the memorial plaque took place in September 2011, with the participation of attendees of the 3rd Agricultural Aviators’ Congress, which brought together all those associated with the design, research, production, supervision, trade and operation of agricultural aircraft.
The next, 4th Agricultural Aviators’ Congress was held at the National Museum of Agriculture and Food Industry in Szreniawa on 8–9 November 2014. The main attraction of the congress was the opening of a renovated agricultural aviation exhibition, featuring agricultural aeroplanes and helicopters: CSS-13, WSK An-2R, PZL-101 Gawron, WSK Mi-2R, PZL-104 Wilga 35, PZL-106BR Kruk, PZL M-15 Belphegor, PZL M-18 Dromader, Let L-200D Morava, as well as agricultural aviation equipment, documents and photographs. more: list of accident victims
[…] down below, very close, there lurked and waited for its victims, covered with a brown veil, the dispassionate but cruel, grim and wild desert. A boundless expanse of stones and sand scorched during the day, and rocks, brown, almost black, ceaselessly attacked by solar energy. A desert that charged travellers for staying on it and for every smallest mistake made. The toll is the remnants of crashed aircraft lying there to this day […]. — Bernard Wolny*
