Amateur building in Croatia starts with the capital piece written by Fausta Vrancic
(Sibenik, 1551. - Venecija, 1617.) "Machine Novae" and with the construction and making of the first
parachute. Engineer Slavoljub Penkala with the help of the first croatian pilot Dragutin Novak builds
the first croatian aeroplane in the year 1909. and with that act starts a nonbreaking era of aeronautics
and amateur-building aircraft in Croatia. With a great effort and renunciation, generations or amateur
builders and professional builders like engineer Rudolf Fizir, spread enthusiasm of aeronautics in Croatia
till this very day.
Croatian Aeronautical Federation as a roof association of air sports in Croatia by constituting the
Amateur-Built Aircraft commission started the unification of all amateur builders and their coordination
on a state level so they could continue this creative activity even more successfully by sharing knowlege and experience.
Ljubomir (Mijo) Hranjec - born 27.07.1947.g. in Zagreb. Since primary school he was involved in aeromodelling.
In Zagreb aero club he engaged in gliding in the year 1979., and in 1981. gets a licence as a glider pilot and in 1985.
finishes acrobat flying training. In the year 1989. he finishes and flyes his first microlight plane which he built by
american blueprints, KR-1 under the register number 9A-XZG which he flyes even today by the register number 9A-UZG.
In the year 1991. he gets a sport licence in general aviation, and ina year in 1993. he builds and flyes ALBATROS - microlight
single-seater plane by his own design which was the first plane after the CA-51 in Zagreb.
As a succesfull amateur builder, in a year 1999., he gets a Charter for the distinguished airplane builder from the
Croatian aeronautical federation.
