Stanisław Sobkow was born in 1924, probably in Lviv. When he was a boy, his parents often took him to the Lviv airport. He admired the acrobatics there. Fascinated by this sight, he began to build wooden models of airplanes.
In 1939, as a 16-year-old young man, he tried to build a glider (probably named WS-1) and a small amateur WS-2 aircraft according to his own designs. However, these plans were interrupted by the war.
After World War II, Stanisław Sobkow worked as a technician at WSK-Okęcie . Despite the many and various difficulties that prevailed after the end of the war. In 1951 he started building an amateur plane, which he called WS-3 “Czajka”. The works were not completed until 1956. In the summer of 1956, “Czajka” made the first flight. Sobków’s plane was also demonstrated at the air shows in Kielce and Mielec. Unfortunately, the construction and piloting of own aircraft were strictly forbidden in Poland at that time.
Fortunately, the burning of “Czajka” did not break Stanisław Sobków, who again started working on a new structure. It was a helicopter named WS-4 “Świerszcz”. Its construction was completed in 1967.
Stanisław Sobkow also developed other constructions, such as a 3-seater snowmobile, a motor boat, the “Żbik” tricycle (that is, the conversion of the “Komar” moped into a 4-seater vehicle!) And a modification of the “Syrena-103” car.
