AN 2's

[davebasing]

Also visited Riga, Latvia in early 1993 where three Colts were in the (then) private collection at the airport. The derelict Aeroflot example is CCCP32418. Then two which are not what they appear. The aircraft in Croatian marks is in the hilltop museum at Cerbaiola near Rimini where the owner delights in painting aircraft in exotic (and totally false) markings. There are for example Migs painted as Pakistani, Libyan & Iranian but are all former East German aircraft. His AN2 has no military history and is actually SP-TCG (SP-TCD is also there). The aircraft with bort 44 is preserved at March AFB, California and is really N22AN also with no former military history. It is not the same N22AN that came through Fair Oaks back in the 70s en route to Northrop in the USA where it was allegedly used to test the ability of the radar on the Northrop F20 to detect the fabric covered AN2s at a time when Northrop were trying to sell F20s to South Korea who were concerened about incursions in their airspace by North Korean AN2s. The N22AN that transited Fair Oaks was apparently donated to the South Koreans after the trials were complete. The N22AN at March has a different c/n and was brought back to the US from Mexico where it was found derelict in (genuine) Russian civil markings.

Next set will cover a Polish trip in 2013.

[billsamuels]

Hi Dave,

Long time no talk, glad you've made it over to this new site... Missed your input and expertise...

Cheers mate.

Bill

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Scanned some old photos -
There were 4 An-2s at Fowlmere July 2001 for Flyjng Legends-

D-FOKK


D-FKMI


D-FAIR


The fourth was D-FWJK (pictured on page 1 at Fowlmere 2014)

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PFA Rally at Cranfield 1994

OM-UIN


Same aircraft at Cranfield 1997, but as HA-MKF

[starlifter]

Yes it is at Lognes



SP-FVM

[davebasing]

Cheers Bill, thanks for the welcome. Was hoping to be at the 'Bushe yesterday morning but got held up. Will try next time. Best wishes Dave

[davebasing]

First from the 2013 week long Polish trip to coincide with the air show at Radom. These are in Poznan, the first one is preserved in the downtown Citadel (with other aircraft) and the rest at the home for distressed Antonovs at Poznan-Kobyinica.

[davebasing]

Some more from the Polish trip.

This one preserved in Fort Sadyba in Warsaw


Next two from the museum at Krakow




Then the extensive museum at Deblin. 7810 in the main collection, 7448 & 9866 in the store

[davebasing]

For a change of scene -

At Bled, Slovenia back in 1997







Not a AN2, but my mount in to a rather snowy Bled was this 172

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PFA Rally Cranfield 1999

RA-01641


and LY-ABW



PFA Rally Cranfield 1997
SP-FBO

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LY-AFO RIAT Fairford 1999

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SP-FAF Paris-Le Bourget 1997

[davebasing]

Completing the trilogy of markings on ZZs pictures of HA-MKF/OM-UIN, here is the same aircraft at Yeovilton in 1993 as UK-UIN.



East German 826 at the museum at Cottbus 2002



Long term resident on the civil side of the Aeronavale base at Cuers

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At White Waltham in 1997



La Ferte Alais 1998



And finally a question. I took this one on the dump at Nairobi Wilson in 2001. The long grass (or more precisely what was living in the grass!) prevented examination to determine its c/n or reg. Anyone got any ideas?

[davebasing]

Theses are the last that I can immediately find.

Estonian AF at the Koksijde show in 2011. Pity they sent the same one to Fairford later.



Long term resident at Belgrade airport in 2013



Preserved at the museum at

[davebasing]

Oops pressed the wrong button - the last one referred to should have been former Polish AF 2919 at Graz, Austria

[keithh]

Feb 14, 2015 10:07:28 GMT davebasing said:

First from the 2013 week long Polish trip to coincide with the air show at Radom. These are in Poznan, the first one is preserved in the downtown Citadel (with other aircraft) and the rest at the home for distressed Antonovs at Poznan-Kobyinica.

Most of these I have in my post at Ligowiec but they have deteriorated badly in the few years up to you seeing them

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Found some more- these are all from 2002.

My first trip to Budaors - HA-DAC



Also Budaors HA-YHB



Wellesbourne Mountfors D-FKMA



Barkaby, Sweden RA-02640



Hermeskeil, Germany HA-ANA



Berlin Airshow D-FWJM

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Third time on the thread for these two...!
Back to one of the prettiest airfields I've visited - Lesce-Bled, Slovenia.

More of a close up than my 2005 photos, and one is in a different colour scheme than from Dave's 1997 picture-

S5-CAP



S5-CAR





Still can't find my ES- Antonovs, but I've thought of a few others still to look for!

[graham]

I haven't scrolled through all the previous posts here but someone did mention that Popham's resident old girl hdn't yet featured. So, all I can offer for this wonderful collection of shots is HA-MKF which I have to say I was pretty impressed to see the first time I ever visited the field

IMG_0111 by brownieboy27, on Flickr

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Thanks Graham.

HA-MKF was eventually featured but in a photo from 1997, so good to see a much more recent photo than that!
We also managed between us, to show the same a/c as both OK-UIN and OM-UIN.
Cheers

[graham]

Thanks ZZ

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Not sure how I forgot this one. My most recent An2 photo is this Honduran registered one at Kenosha Regional