Václav Toman, a promoter of aviation history, founder and long-time chairman of the Pilsen Aviation History Club and member of the Letci Plzeň – Czech Aviation Association, died at the premature age of 76.
It was Václav Toman from Doubravka who passed on the legacy of Czechoslovak airmen fighting in the ranks of the British Royal Air Force RAF during World War II. He regularly participated in commemorative acts on Habrmann Square and was a co-author of several publications. He was responsible for a number of commemorative plaques for members of the RAF. For a long time he was dedicated to the promotion of the history of aviation.
A big supporter of the history of aviation not only in Pilsen, our Czech pilots. foreign resistance, plastic modeller, glider, long-time chairman and founder of the Aviation History Club, gen. J. Irving Plzeň, member of the committee of branch No. 4 of the Pilsen Airmen’s Union and the Letci Plzeň – Czech Aviation Association, initiator of the unveiling of the commemorative plaques of the RAF pilots – the trio of Pavlík, Šindelář, Záleský from Pilsen – Doubravky, gen. Antonín Lišek at his house, gen. To Jiří Hartman, gen. Miroslav Štander and Pilsen native Edita Hermanová – Sedláková. Author of a number of air shows and co-author of publications about the pilots of the West Bohemian Aeroclub Plzeň – Bory in foreign resistance.
