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Airplanes and other flying machines captured on the ground |
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 | Registration: OK-020<br>
Serial: 9431436
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This airfraft was the first delivered Yak-40 for CSA - Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie in 1974 and registered as OK-EEA. In 1984 was sold to VZLU (Czech aviation research institute), modified as flying laboratory for tests of new engines Walter M-601/V-510 and chiefly new propellers. Yak flown by VZLU 316 hours an... |  | 02/05/2010 | 156 | 
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 | The Boeing 737 AEW&C is an Airborne Early Warning & Control aircraft. It is about half the weight and has half the engines of the 707-based E-3 Sentry, and mounts a fixed, electronically scanned, rather than a rotating radar antenna. It was designed for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as Project Wedgetail. The 737 AEW&C has also been selected by the Turkish Air Force (under Pr... | | 02/02/2010 | 260 |
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 | Type: Tupolev Tu-154B-2
Operator: Perm Airlines
Registration: RA-85450 - RA-85287 - RA-85454 - RA-85284
The Tupolev Tu-154 (Russian: Туполев Ту-154) (NATO reporting name Careless) is a Soviet medium-range trijet airliner designed in the mid 1960s. One of the notable civilian aircraft of its era, the Tu-154 has be... | | 02/02/2010 | 90 |
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 | The Chinese company Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (HAMC) was formed in 1952. It started to produce a number of aircraft, initially under license from Russia, later they reverse engineered their own copies of Russian aircraft from 1966. One of these was the Harbin H-5 which was based on the Ilyushin Il-28 'Beagle' a light bomber. The Romanian Air Force received at least 23 of these a... | | 02/02/2010 | 14 |
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 | Type: Douglas DC-7C
Registration: EC-BBT
Serial: 45553/1038
Delivered new to Swissair as HB-IBP for CHF 9'935'000. It was the last DC-7C built! Sold to SAS on January 6th, 1962 as SE-CCH. Afterwards it flew with JAL-Japan Air Lines as JA6306 and then Spantax as EC-BBT. It is now stored next to the Aeroclub San Augustin in El Berriel, Spain | | 02/02/2010 | 38 |
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 | The Ilyushin Il-80 (NATO reporting name: "Maxdome") is a Russian airborne command post.
A modified Ilyushin Il-86, the Il-80 (also referred to as the Il-86VKP) is meant to be used as a command center for Russian officials such as the President, in the event of nuclear war. Its role is similar to that of the Boeing E-4B. The Il-80 has no external windows (save those in ... | | 02/02/2010 | 29 |
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 | Type: MiG-15UTI (NATO: Midget)
Registration: Red 501
MiG-15UTI
Two-seat dual-control jet trainer
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-15) was a jet fighter developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The... | | 02/02/2010 | 15 |
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 | Grupo Aéreo de Caza 13 "Libertador Simon Bolivar"
Escuadrón 131 & Escuadrón 132
Venezuelan Air Force and the government of Venezuela on 14 June 2006, announced the purchase of 24 units of the Su-30MK2 aircraft. The first two Su-30MK2s arrived in the first week of December 2006 while another 8 were commissioned during 2007, fourteen more units have arrived in ... | | 02/02/2010 | 15 |
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 | MiG-29OVT
The aircraft is one of the six pre-built MiG-29Ms before 1991, later received thrust-vectoring engine and fly-by-wire technology. It served as a thrust-vectoring engine testbed and technology demonstrator in various air shows to show future improvement in the MiG-29M. It has identical avionics to the MiG-29M. The only difference in the cockpit layout is an additional switch to... | | 01/31/2010 | 293 |
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 | Type: MiG-21SPS-K (Izdeliye 94A; NATO "Fishbed-F")
Registration: 463 / 2220
Serial: 94A6808
K = Kanone ("Cannon")
East German designation for MiG-21PFM (Izd. 94A) aircraft wired for using cannon pods. | | 01/31/2010 | 20 |
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 | Type: MiG-21U (1961; Izdeliye 66-400; NATO "Mongol-A")
Registration: 23+93
Serial: 663220
U = Uchebnyy ("Training")
Two-seat training version of the MiG-21F-13.
MiG-21U-400 - East German designation for MiG-21U aircraft of izdeliye 66-400 | | 01/31/2010 | 10 |
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 | Type: MiG-23BN ('Flogger-H)
Registration: 696 / 2044
Serial: 0393214212
MiG-23BN ('Flogger-H)
The MiG-23BN was the definitive fighter-bomber variant. It was otherwise the same as MiG-23B, but had the same R-29-300 engine as contemporary fighter 'Floggers'. They were also fitted with "type 3" wings. There were other minor changes in electron... | | 01/31/2010 | 8 |
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 | Type: MiG-21SPS (Izdeliye 94A; NATO "Fishbed-F")
Registration: 783 / 22+31
Serial: 944504
SPS = Sduv Pogranichnovo Sloya ("Boundary Layer Blowing")
To avoid confusion with the local "MiG-21PFM" designation given to the modified MiG-21PF (izdeliye 76A), the East German air force redesignated the "real" MiG-21PF... | | 01/31/2010 | 10 |
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 | Type: Westland Wessex HAS1 (WS-58)
Registration: XS887 / FI-403
Serial: WA267
Taken on charge and issued to 829 Naval Air Squadron (NAS). Code 403-FI it operated from County Class guided missile destroyer D20 HMS Fife.
Operating with Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Yeovilton station flight coded 18-VL.
Operating with 772 NAS at RNAS Portland, coded 514-... | | 01/29/2010 | 51 |
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 | Type: Fairey Gannet ECM6
Registration: XG831 / 396
Serial: F9373
This Gannet was one of the last of the shrinking collection of aircraft to be found at the Flambards triple theme park near Helston in Cornwall - just down the road from RNAS Culdrose. While faded the aircraft appeared to be in good condition - the cockpit was substantially complete, though the glazing... | | 01/29/2010 | 11 |
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 | Type: McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II
Owner: Greece - Air Force
Registration: 68-0506
Serial: 3693
USAF version with an integral M61 Vulcan cannon in the elongated RF-4C nose, AN/APQ-120 radar with smaller cross-section to accommodate the cannon, J79-GE-17 engines with 17,900 lbf (79.379 kN) of afterburner thrust each. Late-series aircraft equipped with lea... | | 01/28/2010 | 115 |
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 | Type: Su-17UM3 (S-52UM3, 'Fitter-G')
Registration: 2551
Serial: 17532366510
Su-17UM3 (S-52UM3, 'Fitter-G')
Based on the revised airframe of the Su-17UM, but with an avionics bay and an additional fuel tank in place of the rear cockpit, increasing the internal fuel capacity to 4850 l (1,280 U.S. gal). Doppler radar moved internally, removing the fairi... | | 01/28/2010 | 29 |
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 | Type: Mi-8PS (NATO - Hip-D, aka Mi-8TPS)
Registration: 739 / 9360
Serial: 10599
Mi-8PS (NATO - Hip-D, aka Mi-8TPS)
Radio relay and command post version | | 01/28/2010 | 8 |
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 | Type: Mi-8TVK (NATO - Hip-E, aka Mi-8TB)
Registration: 124 / 9361
Serial: 10553
Mi-8TVK (NATO - Hip-E, aka Mi-8TB)
Version used as a gunship or direct air support platform. Airframe modifications add 2x external hard points for a total of 6, and mount a flexible 12.7 mm (0.5-inch) KV-4 machine gun in the nose. Armament of 57 mm S-5 rockets, six UV-3... | | 01/28/2010 | 10 |
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 | Type: North American F-86D-35-NA Sabre
Owner: Greece - Air Force
Serial: 51-6234
The North American Aviation F-86D Sabre (sometimes called the "Sabre Dog" or "Dog Sabre") was a transonic jet all-weather interceptor. Based on North American's F-86 Sabre day fighter, the F-86D had only 25 percent commonality with other Sabre variants, with a larger... | | 01/28/2010 | 15 |
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 | Type: MiG-23UB ('Flogger-C)
Registration: 109 / 2060
Serial: A1038280
MiG-23UB ('Flogger-C)
Very similar to MiG-23U except that the R-29 turbojet engine replaced the older R-27 installed in the MiG-23U. Production continued until 1985 (for the export variant). A total of 769 examples were built, including conversions from the MiG-23U. | | 01/27/2010 | 62 |
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 | Owner: ABIG Helidrome - Helicopter-Modell-Museum
Registration: 9309 / ex. 426 / ex. 9394
Serial: 340008
Airborne command post version characterized by antennas, and Doppler radar on tail boom (based on Mi-8T airframe). | | 01/23/2010 | 17 |
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 | Type: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21bis
Registration: 875 / 2430
Serial: 75033211
MiG-21 was first displayed in public at Tushino on June 24, 1956. The design was as a result of evaluations in USSR after the Korean War and the need to provide a short-range interceptor.
More than 11.000 examples of the MiG-21 were produced in 20 different versions, and the ... | | 01/23/2010 | 13 |
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 | Type: MiG-21 SPS
Registration: 937 / 22+41
Serial: 94A5602
MiG-21 was first displayed in public at Tushino on June 24, 1956. The design was as a result of evaluations in USSR after the Korean War and the need to provide a short-range interceptor.
More than 11.000 examples of the MiG-21 were produced in 20 different versions, and the type was at one ... | | 01/21/2010 | 192 |
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 | The Beriev Be-200 Altair is a multipurpose amphibious aircraft designed by the Beriev Aircraft Company and manufactured by Irkut. Marketed as being designed for fire fighting, search and rescue, maritime patrol, cargo and passenger transportation, it has a capacity of 12 tonnes (12,000 litres) of water, or up to 72 passengers. | | 01/20/2010 | 22 |
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