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[Volk01]

 

[Volk01]

NATO KFOR Reserve

 

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634th Martens (Jderii) Battalion training at Cincu Range.

 

[Volk01]

The descriptions are copied directly from the author.

Starting at 1, day 199; The fourth aircraft in the line is 199! ? The line containing 199 was a storage line at Timisoara, consisting of no fewer than 31 former Romanian Air Force MiG-23s in a wide variety of color scheme's. Between 1979 and 1983 the Romanian AF received some 40 MiG-23MFs and 10 MiG-23UBs and operated by Regimentul 57 Aviatie de Vanatoare (Fighter Aviation Regiment) at Constanta-Mihail Kogalniceanu and Regimentul 93 Aviatie de Vanatoare at Timisoara-Giarmata. In addition to the 32 (including the gate guard) at Timisoara five additional MiG-23MFs were in storage at MK.
Most aircraft had ran out of hours in the late 1990s and the last four aircraft were retired in 2002 (it is believed that only three of them were airworthy at that moment being MiG-23MF 203 and 205 and MiG-23UB 135 with 137 also listed as withdrawn in 2002 but not seen over the final few years.
Unfortunately by 2012 all had been scrapped.
I figured it might be nice to share some more aircraft from the impressive line up of aircraft. Note that they are scanned slides, so their quality is not too good!

A very impressive line filled with an impressive aircraft with impressive color schemes. MiG-23MF 225 in the foreground was delivered on 23 February 1979 and officially retired in April 2000 with only 605 flying hours.

MiG-23MF 195 was wearing a green/brown camouflage. 195 was delivered on 13 December 1979 and officially retired in April 2000 with 738 flying hours.

MiG-23UB 512 has construction number 9903512 which differs from the usual exportnummers starting with A103 indicating that it could be a second hand aircraft (note the (SRO-2 Krhrom?) Soviet-used blade antenna under the nose rather than the three-aerial SRO-1 Odd Rods antenna found on most export aircraft. Interestingly it was listed as a MiG-23U rather than a MiG-23UB. It was also retired in April 2000 with 1707 flying hours. It was very common that two-seaters had a lot more flying hours than the single seaters.

MiG-23MF 259 was delivered on 8 May 1982 and officially struck of charge in April 2000. At that time it had amassed only 462 hours of flying. A number of aircraft were painted in this light grey camouflage.

Looking ver nice in this smart colors is MiG-23MF 241. It was delivered on 15 February 1979. When struck of charge in April 2000 it had logged 730 hours.

As 512 mentioned earlier, also #311 c/n 7902311 was probably destined for the Soviet AF. As with 512 it was listed as a MiG-23U. It had logged 1617 hours when retired in April 2000.

Two seater #136 c/n A1037836 was delivered on 25 October 1978 (hence the <78>36). It was looking pretty good in September 2003 when this picture was taken. It had 1460 hours when it retired in April 2000.

 

[HSMW]

Really nice pics!

 

[Volk01]

35 years of IAR-99

 

[Volk01]

Humanitarian missions with the C27J Spartan. 5 Covid-19 patients where transpored.

 

[Volk01]

C130 transporting medical equipment donated by Germany for the fight against Covid19

 

[Volk01]

Gepard training, Poland.

 

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[Chris O`Crooh]

Gotta love them "pencils"

 

[droopy]

Pencils ? you referring to how the MiG is painted ?

 

[Volk01]

I think he is referring to the shape of the fuselage. In Romania I heard people calling them "pipes".

 

[andrey22]

pipes? maybe flying coffins , this is the last name

 

[Chris O`Crooh]

I think he is referring to the shape of the fuselage. In Romania I heard people calling them "pipes".

You`re right, MiG-21s were known in Poland as "pencils". And some people were envious because of Romanian MiGs modification, as our deteriorated and were scrapped.

 

[andrey22]

the flying resource is pasted away on romanian s mig 21
to bad that we scrapped the mig"s 29

 

[andrey22]

 

[Conhoon]

You`re right, MiG-21s were known in Poland as "pencils". And some people were envious because of Romanian MiGs modification, as our deteriorated and were scrapped.

Once upon a time in Poland they were also called "irons" ("żelazka" in Polish) because of the characteristic delta-shaped wings.

 

[Volk01]

Aero L-29 Delfin - photo taken in june 2000, all were retired in 2006